Frank Luntz: U Ready to Take the Apollo Challenge?

After a year or more of dogging by yours truly and others for him to get real on where political spin stops and patriotic duty begins, I was thrilled today to read that GOP spin doctor Frank Luntz has finally come around on global warming. This is a big victory for the reality community.

ABC News' Clayton Sandell reports that in a BBC documentary, Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster who shaped the GOP's talking points on the climate crisis, is distancing himself from a memo he wrote six years ago.

LUNTZ: "It's now 2006. Now I think most people would conclude that there is global warming taking place, and that the behavior of humans are affecting the climate."

QUESTION: "But the Administration has continued to follow your advice. They're still questioning the science."

LUNTZ: "That's up to the Administration. I'm not the administration. What they want to do is their business. And it's nothing to do with what I write. And it's nothing to do with what I believe."

Frank, I am ready to be persuaded on other issues that Republicans have better answers. So bring it on -- and in the meantime, I urge you to join Robert Redford, Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and thousands of grassroots citizens who are rolling up their sleeves and taking The Apollo Challenge.