The sentence you quote above refers to the subject the article Barack Obama not William Ayers The manufactured controversy is an artifact of the election campaign which means the coverage of it is certainly relevant to the campaign article But it has no relevancy in the biography and it really hasn t had any effect on the public perception of Obama unlike Jeremiah Wright Incidentally I m not sure how you can equate ROFL with incivility I just thought the Google search was funny because it was so meaningless as I demonstrated