^ A Vast Left Wing Liberal Conspiracy (VLWLC) would have all news outlets talking about the possibility that John McCain was brainwashed while he was a P.O.W. in Vietnam, which originated from anonymous spam e-mail.

Clips of John Hagee calling Catholicism "the Great Whore", along with Rod Parsley would dominate the news cycle for at least a month, solid. Whenever McCain's numbers rise, the media dutifully brings the topic back up again, ad nauseum.

Rachel Maddow would be the most famous Talk Radio personality (aside from Howard Stern, who would still broadcast on terrestrial radio), and would constantly complain of a right-wing bias in all news outlets. She'd have had a successful smear campaign; most conservatives would be reluctant to use that term, it now has such a negative connotation in common discourse.

President Gore, would of course, time his policy to aid Obama as well, rolling out a report in October on how carbon emissions are now in decline, globally, for the first time since they've been keeping records.

Too bad there ain't no Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, just the right wing kind.

However, as Colbert points out, reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Upvote, but that music is annoying as hell. See also:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rod-Parsley-McCains-Spiritual-Guide-528

A related video:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rod-Parsley-McCains-Spiritual-Guide-528

Or what about how McCain spiritual advisor Rod Parsley wants to eradicate Islam, or any of a number of insane things that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have said. In my book, this double standard smacks of racism.

It seem that it's impossible to not look like a nutjob if you have ties to any preacher at all. Here's McCain's apparently...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rod-Parsley-McCains-Spiritual-Guide-528

The difference being, that'll sift, this won't. I blame the title and tags on this one. Can we at least pretend to be objective? It might help get this out of the queueueue.