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The Press Box

Brian Stelter on Fox News. Plus, the Week the Campaign Went Nuts and Listener Mail

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

From antifa planes to golf metaphors and bags of soup, Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down the chaotic Trump campaign (2:05). Then, during Listener Mail, they answer the question, “Why does every nonfiction book have such a long subtitle?” (23:18). Then CNN commentator Brian Stelter stops by to discuss his new book, ‘Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.’ (36:10). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David, in an interview, Donald Trump suggested he knew of a recent airplane flight loaded

0:09.6

with people wearing black uniforms who wanted to do big damage to the Republican convention.

0:16.4

Now, what I want to know is, if there were a real thing called Antifa Airlines, what would

0:24.2

it be like?

0:25.2

I was going to say NBC's Pan-M reboot is really going off the rails already.

0:30.8

If there was Antifa Airlines, you wouldn't have to pay for a Coke, right?

0:36.8

We can say that right up front.

0:38.1

Yeah.

0:39.1

There'd be free soup, I think, right?

0:41.8

There's lots of soup.

0:42.8

Hey, at least you know, everybody's wearing a mask, right?

0:47.0

There's no need to worry about that rule.

0:50.6

Man, I have no idea.

0:52.3

It's really like it would be a, I feel like, you know, maybe not the ideal way to fly,

0:57.6

but everybody's a little bit on edge in airplanes these days, I think, right?

1:01.1

Yeah, if you're on kayak and you're hovering over two fares and one is Antifa Airlines

1:06.2

and the other is spirit, which way are you going?

1:10.0

I think I'm going Antifa Airlines.

1:12.0

Well, just, you know, just so I could, just for journalistic reasons, right?

1:16.0

You could report back to all your friends and readers.

1:19.2

You know, in that person moves from the regular seat to the extra legroom seat and the flight

1:23.3

attendant has to show up and shoot them away, that ain't happening on Antifa Airlines.

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