Sentence:  We can easily imagine how Hunter would have described people like Mitt Romney (I'm guessing he would have reached for "depraved scumsucking whore" pretty early in his coverage) and Rick Santorum ("screeching rectum-faced celibate"?) and all you have to do is look at his write-up of the Eagleton affair to see how this writer would have responded to whatever manufactured <WSD>noncontroversy</WSD> of the Bill Ayers/Reverend Wright genus ends up rocking the 2012 election season. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Something that is not controversial, especially one that someone is trying to make seem like a controversy.