Stelter: A Fox News Viewer Once Mailed Me a Potato

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STELTER: "I like to think that I’m a bit character in that universe. I once had a potato mailed to me. It came in a FedEx box, it was an actual potato. I showed it to my kids and, of course, my kids are young, they have no idea why someone is mailing me a potato. It’s because that, within the Fox universe, I used to be called Humpty Dumpty, and from there it became Brian's a potato. And so when I get random tweets from people calling me 'Spud,' I know that, as you just said, they're in that in-group. It is their way of communicating to each other that they are in on the — I guess in this case it’s a joke, but it’s also an insult, you know?"