Here is a fun little video of Caleb’s “opening” remarks. Not particularly political, but pretty funny.

Caleb Howe from David Thompson on Vimeo.

Teh Twitter.

Once felt dumb to email about phone calls. Then came blogging email. Then tweeting blogs. And now, I’ve CALLED about tweets. Circle of dumb.
9:59 PM May 2nd from TweetDeck

… and now I’m blogging about calling about tweeting about blogging about emailing about calling … sigh.

Twitter had a lot to do with the successful pushback on the Playboy article and the Letterman “jokes”. It has helped drive a number of big stories the last two weeks. Like it or not folks, it’s here to stay. Well, for a while at least. It’s also a great way to keep up with what Redstate is doing and to annoy the snot out of @markosm. If you’re in the Redstate Army, it’s also a great way to track alerts. Resistance, in other words, is futile. You will be assimilated.

This is an OPEN THREAD. Feel free to use it to pimp your Twitter feed. See below the fold for my own recommendations.

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Teh Twitter. Yeah. I’m hip. What of it?

Let me tell you something about Twitter. Despite the many humor blogs you’ve seen written, most people on Twitter are not sending Tweets (yes, that’s really what they are called … sigh) highlighting every mundane detail of their lives. “About to eat chicken” … “Eating Chicken” … “Done with Chicken” … “Remember the part where I was eating the chicken? That was awesome” … this is not, some of you may be surprised to learn, what Twitter is all about.

Twitter is a fast moving environment for commentary and to share articles, news, links, photos and essentially a snapshot of what’s happening on the web and in the world, in brief but sometimes enlightening or hilarious bursts, which don’t allow for too much embellishment, too much verbosity, or too much pompous over-stylizing of the way in which one speaks and communicates what thoughts or above-mentioned links which they may be trying to share.

In other words, no sentences like the one I just typed.

If you aren’t familiar with Twitter, the first thing you’ll need to do is set up an account. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Now that you are on teh Twitter, you want to start following people. The way to do this is to go to their @twitter address and click on FOLLOW under the name. Easy! Now if only you knew WHO to follow … (cough @CalebHowe cough)

Following the right people is the key to enjoying Twitter. To that end, I’m going to make some suggestions. As this is an Open Thread, discuss what you will, but I invite you, in the tradition of #followfriday, to share your Twitter recommendations. (If you aren’t familiar with hashtags ask in the comments.)

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Today’s Ed Morrissey Show features special guest Congressman Eric Cantor.

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Andrew Malcolm returns in his new Tuesday slot to discuss media and politics. In the second half, Rep. Eric Cantor joins us to talk about Barack Obama’s economic policies. We’ll also have Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe debate the videotape allegedly depicting Joe Biden’s adult daughter using drugs. Legitimate news story, or irrelevant political attack? We’ll go into bonus minutes to find out! We’ll also talk about Keith Olbermann and Twitter, Caleb’s exclusive look into the anchor’s hypocrisy on social networking.

You can find my Olbermann story here, Erick on Biden here, Ed on Biden here, and Tommy on Biden here. You can watch live and participate below the fold.

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Last week I spoke with Ed Morrissey and Jim Geraghty about journolist and Keith Olbermann. Today I’ll be on the air again with fellow Political Machine writer Tommy Christopher, to debate among other topics, Star Trek! Christopher will be taking the position that only Star Trek: TOS “counts” whereas I’ll be talking reality. Also on the slate: TOTUS.

From Hot Air:

In the second half, we cross the aisle and go back again with Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe, the liberal-conservative tag team from AOL’s Political Machine. We’ll talk about whether the TOTUS gag is fair or not, Barney Frank’s accusation of homophobia against Antonin Scalia, and whether having Star Trek interior decor means never being able to reproduce again.

Show starts at 3PM. Click below the fold to watch, live or archive. The important thing to know is that I won.

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In today’s installment of “How did THAT happen” I had the pleasure of joining two of my favorite writers, NRO’s Jim Geraghty and Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey, for a debate about the ongoing ‘journolist‘ story, of late the topic which prompted Keith Olbermann and Markos Moulitsas to laugh and joke casually and in a non-lame way last night on Countdown. If you didn’t catch the video, it sorta sounded like this:

Keith: I’m not on the list are you on the list Kos?
Kos: No I’m not on that silly list. See my smile? This is all so silly.
Keith: It’s silly right? Stupid list. I don’t need their stupid list.
Kos: It’s just a conspiracy theory. Nobody is doing anything. It’s silly! I’m smiling, did you notice that? It means I think this is funny.
Keith: No, yes, I totally noticed. Hang on, I’m doing a funny voice.
Kos: Of course the right really does do that.
Keith: Oh they totally do. They collude.

Kos and Keith continue to say the list is innocent and this is all silly. Much smiling occurs. They aren’t on the list, but that’s fine. Their feelings aren’t hurt. They haven’t the time for all those pesky emails anyway, what with all the smiling at one another on the schedule.

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