It has been revealed that Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith received part of her education at a segregation academy, one of the hyper-christian private schools founded to perpetuate segregation. Now Sen. Hyde-Smith’s campaign regards this news as a conspiracy by the “gotcha liberal media.” I guess this is thought to be like the “gotcha questions” so feared by Sarah Palin and Donald Trump. The campaign also denounces publication of this news as “a new low.”

Now then, the information published did not come from a “gotcha question,” but from investigation of public-access records by the press. And to call publication of this information “a new low” — I guess Sen. Hyde-Smith’s campaign staff doesn’t know much about politics in the Old and New South.