perfidy

Who's your daddy indeed....why, it's Strom Thurmond! What an asshole. He sleeps with a black maid at age 22, gives his daughter hush money (but not enough to give her a comfortable existence) all her life to keep the story quiet, and goes on to build a political career as an unrepentant racist and segregationist. The very definition of a class act. Just look at the picture at CNN-- his daugher is the spit and image of him, except black like the people he dedicated his career to working against.

Just a fun fact, his daughter is now... seventy-eight years old. Strom Thurmond was around a long, long time.

Stuart Benjamin has more at the Volokh Conspiracy.

[wik] Al Barger has more, in screed form at blogcritics.org.