And aren’t those three scary words when they’re together? Lamps, subbing for Jim Rome on his daily sports radio show, thinks that anti-Iraq War sentiment cost New York in the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but think anti-Iraq War sentiment did not cost London support, as London won in a final runoff against Paris. Lampley’s “reasoning” suggests that George Bush and by extension the U.S. and New York are seen as the prime movers of the Iraq War in world opinion, and Tony Blair is seen as a “fellow traveler” (interesting choice of words.) When his logic was questioned by an e-mailer, Lampley admitted that he had no proof of this, but said he was basing his assumptions on “polling data” he had seen on the IOC members.

Lampley, as we know, loves polling data.