Glorious Self-Own: Brian Stelter Tries to Explain How He Was Sent a Potato and the Internet Responds

We haven't heard from our friend, former CNN host Brian Stelter in some time.

That's a good thing.

But when I saw what he said in a recent interview, I couldn't help but write about it because it's so funny and vintage clueless Stelter. Even after CNN gave him the boot, Stelter is still carrying his obsession for Fox News. Stelter had some silly anti-Fox News set up behind him. He then told a tale that was just hilarious. He explained how he was sent a potato, and the event clearly triggered him.

Brian Stelter: "I once had a potato mailed to me. I showed it to my kids. It's because that within the Fox Universe, I used to be called Humpty Dumpty. From there, it became 'Brian is a Potato'.
Imagine being such a Potato head you can't explain why your nickname is 'Potato… pic.twitter.com/jPd9mZr6C0
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) April 14, 2024

"I once had a potato mailed to me. It came in a Fed Ex box. It wss an actual potato. And I showed it to my kids...and 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. From there, it became 'Brian's a Potato...I guess it's a joke, but it's also an insult?"

He complained about people calling him "spud" being an in-joke, saying that was how they knew each other, as though the internet teasing him is a "secret society."

Now that's a glorious self-own if there ever was a self-own.

It's everything that typifies Brian Stelter, all wrapped in 37 seconds: a complete lack of self-awareness, blaming Fox for something it didn't do and getting the facts wrong/fake news.

Of course, Stelter being called a potato had nothing to do with Fox or being mailed a potato, and everything to do with how people thought he looked one, as well as how he behaved. But that's probably a bit too hard for Stelter to acknowledge, he might then have to do some internal reflection. But it is pretty funny that he tells this story, and gives up the fact that some mailed it to him.

When I said he gets the facts wrong, he thinks (or wants us to think) it's somehow about Humpty Dumpty? Um, Brian? Humpty Dumpty was an egg. That's why when he "had a big fall," and why he could crack. Eggs and potatoes are not the same things.

But typical Stelter, wrong again.

Now this sent a lot of the internet off into gales of laughter and they had a marvelous time with it.

I've watched this video at least a dozen times and it gets funnier each time. Hall of Fame. Hang it in the Louvre. The self-unawareness is hilarious https://t.co/mAEqy8DD4S
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) April 17, 2024