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If I hadn't been up late enough to see it replayed on every cable news show, I wouldn't have believed it myself, but very occasionally, the universe provides: On a slow news day in a slower news week, Lou Holtz goes on Sean Hannity's show and giggles his way through a panel discussion on global warming.

I kept waiting to see a copy of USA Today emerge. Oh fun, I thought, they must have brought him on to do magic tricks. But no:


Sean Hannity. Nancy Pfotenhauer. Lou Holtz. One of these things is not like the other.

Look at him laughing. Can you honestly tell me he knows where he is? And before you skitter down to the comments to type PINKO PINKO COMMIE PINKO, please note: It's not that it's Hannity. It's not even that this "It's global cooling we have to worry about!" nonsense has been debunked ad nauseam. No, the takeaway here is that Lou Holtz was engaged as a panelist on a political talk show, when there's scant evidence that the coach/doctor is a viable panelist on a football talk show.

Scheduled Hannity topics for next week include Dabo Swinney's plan to fix Social Security, Ron Zook's incisive analysis of Russo-Iranian relations, and a preview of Dave Wannstedt's forthcoming book, "55 Easy Steps To Nationalized Healthcare."


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Hat tip: Awful Announcing. Holly welcomes your adulation and scorn at nastinchka-at-yahoo, etc.

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  1. Brian K
    1. Posted by Brian K Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:12 pm EDT

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    This is chum.
  2. Mat
    2. Posted by Mat Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:10 pm EDT

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    Holtz is probably the most qualified political commentator up there.
    Oh, and PINKO PINKO COMMIE PINKO.
  3. Rusty
    3. Posted by Rusty Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:57 pm EDT

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    +1 Mat M
  4. Jean C
    4. Posted by Jean C Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:31 pm EDT

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    Lou is just warming up to give the nation one heckuva pep talk. "So you had a financial meltdown last season ..."
  5. drbundy
    5. Posted by drbundy Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:48 pm EDT

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    Hannity drives me nuts, and I'm a damn conservative. Holtz drives me nuts, and I'm a damn football fan. The two of them together? Aren't there decency standards on tv any more? My head just went "boom".
  6. The World Famous Butt Pirate
    6. Posted by The World Famous Butt Pirate Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:03 pm EDT

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    Ha, nice last paragraph.
  7. donkeydawg
    7. Posted by donkeydawg Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:52 pm EDT

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    I thought it was pretty well known that ol' Lou was a wingnut, having gotten himself fired at Arkansas back in 1984 in no small part because of his close and very strident friendship with Jesse Helms.
  8. just4funsies
    8. Posted by just4funsies Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:44 pm EDT

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    Louie Lisp won't shut up until the entire English language has been thoroughly slurred and splattered...
  9. Ask Bob
    9. Posted by Ask Bob Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:26 pm EDT

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    Pinko commie commie pinko. I would say you have a real grip on yourself. As Clint Eastwood once said, a man must know his limitations.
  10. eyeluvguinness
    10. Posted by eyeluvguinness Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:57 pm EDT

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    He was making a joke people!! You know, talking about global warming when it's 5 degrees outside... you know, funny ha ha. Lighten up people. Why he was on the show to begin with is another story and I am kind of curious what he was brought on to talk about (really hoping it wasn't climatology)
  11. PurdueMatt
    11. Posted by PurdueMatt Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:11 pm EDT

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    Talking about global cooling is a way to poke fun at climate alarmists. No one actually thinks we are facing a global cooling crisis.
  12. gimmieajobman
    12. Posted by gimmieajobman Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:09 pm EDT

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    Sorry, Holly, but you've drunk way too much Kool-Aid out of the global warming nonsense mug. You've bought into the myth that man's had any real influence, or actually could ever have any real influence on the earth's climate. One Mt. Krakatua eruption, Pinatubo eruption, etc. puts more carbon, methane and acidic chemicals into the atmosphere than the combined total of every tailpipe, smoke stack, gassy cow and chimney emission since the dawn of man and the earth has the ability to deal with it. The arrogant absolutism of AGWists like Holly is intellectually dishonest and morally repugnant. To destroy our economy and the quality of life we all enjoy or hope to enjoy by artificially driving up the cost of everything we need to survive just because you worship at the altar of AlGore is a travesty.
    The earth's climate is most directly impacted by the, anyone? anyone?, SUN!! Yes, if you've ever one year on the earth you've noticed that we have seasons based on what part of the earth is tilted closest to the sun. The sun does not burn eternally at absolutely the exact intensity like a machine. It has cycles, some more pronounced than others. While the earth has been warming this cycle, so has Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, etc. AT THE EXACT SAME RATE AS THE EARTH!!! And they don't have SUV's or industrial activity (as far as I'm aware of).
    While I hate Lou Holtz's gameday schtick and Notre Dame bias, he's nailed this one, Holly's the chump.
    Want more info:
    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html
    http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12
  13. Will Q
    13. Posted by Will Q Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:49 pm EDT

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    True, he was making a joke. What makes it so annoying is that it's the same joke anti-global warming pundits use every time it gets cold. "Why, Upper Sandusky broke its record for lowest temperature today! That must mean that global warming is a bunch of bunk, hur, hur!"
  14. Holly
    14. Posted by Holly Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:33 pm EDT

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    I always thought Al Gore was two words.
  15. Doug G
    15. Posted by Doug G Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:56 pm EST

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    You can't see me right now, but I'm slow-clapping in honor of gimmieajobman's hysterics. Top score, sir. "Why, I was so busy looking at these trees that I completely missed that forest over there!"
  16. n_gorman
    16. Posted by n_gorman Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:42 pm EDT

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    The preferred tactic of AGWists (believers in man-caused global warming) like Doug G is to be arrogantly condescending of anyone who doesn't bow at their altar. It is you, sir, who are so busy apologizing for man's existence on this planet as the worst scourge the earth's ever had to endure that your privileged economic status blinds you to the hardships on the poor and working poor that AGW alarmism imposes.
    Tell the peasant in Central America that one of his food staples, corn tortillas are more expensive because we're burning corn as ethanol instead of eating it in order to "do our part" to stop global warming and he'll tell you about the starving mouths that will go without food as a result. Ditto for the sticker shock we all feel in the supermarket (or any retailer) as a result of increased transportation costs from "clean diesel" that costs $1/gal more than the old diesel. And countless other ways AGWists seek to impose their will on us.
    And Obama's Carbon "Cap & Trade" rules will only further drive up our costs for basic necessities. Who will profit? AlGore (the cult figure he is warrants only one name), George Soros, John Edwards, etc. who invest in and trade Carbon vouchers are a few who stand to make billions, while we all suffer. This AGW nonsense devastates the poor in our country and in developing nations beyond the grasp of the Hollywood celebrity millionaires who take up the cause, and the egghead academicians who depend on government grants. I back up my info with links to solid unbiased scientific evidence, you try to stifle the opposing argument with demeaning rhetoric alluding to biased junk science. The AGWists info source is actually pagan religion masquerading as science.
  17. Jason B
    17. Posted by Jason B Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    If anyone needs me, I will be off sacrificing a 68 Lincoln Continental to the alter of the spotted owl.
  18. Jason B
    18. Posted by Jason B Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    Dammit- altar. AR. The Kool-Aid messed with my spelling.
  19. Holly
    19. Posted by Holly Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:33 pm EDT

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    The spotted owl is just asking for it, frankly.
  20. Doug G
    20. Posted by Doug G Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:55 pm EST

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    Rage against my arrogant pagan alarmism all you want, dude, I'm still laughing at you for leaving your dissertation on a football site.
  21. gimmieajobman
    21. Posted by gimmieajobman Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:09 pm EDT

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    Well, if ESPN and all of the sports outlets (like this one) just stuck to football that'd be one thing. Maybe you're not paying attention, or maybe you love seeing it so you don't care, but I puke each and every time Obamamessiah is worshiped in the middle of a sporting event by the announcers, or references are made to him in sportscasts. And, who can forget GE/NBC putting their AGW pagan worship front and center by having "green telecasts" to stop global warming? That line was crossed long ago by your side of the ideological, so once again, your arrogant condescension is apparent. What, no mention that this entire piece we're commenting on here is Holly mocking "deniers" on a football site? Typical self-righteous blather of you Doug G.
  22. Jason B
    22. Posted by Jason B Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    Obamamessiah? Really?
    I'm surprised, Rush- I would have thought that you had your hands full keeping showing Michael Steele who's boss.
  23. Holly
    23. Posted by Holly Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:33 pm EDT

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    Actually, the point is that Lou Holtz has gone 'round the bend, but I simply don't have time to point that out again; I'm too busy deep-frying spotted owls with my pagan graven idol of Al Gore.
  24. Jason B
    24. Posted by Jason B Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    Mmm. Endangered.
  25. Orson
    25. Posted by Orson Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:17 pm EDT

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    Yahoo, how dare you leave out the perspective of we atheist, non-pagan AGWists. For shame! Slaves!

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