According to an audio clip I found on MediaMatters.org, Fox News host Sean Hannity is deeply concerned about Americans trying to escape from Afghanistan — and also, about Afghans who have worked closely with the Americans over the past 20 years, keeping the Taliban at bay.
The Taliban is not longer ‘at bay’, I am given to understand. Not even the slightest bit ‘at bay’.
You can listen to the Sean Hannity audio clip here.
Here’s a partial transcript of Mr. Hannity’s comments on August 17.
How could this ever happen? We got the greatest military fighting force on earth. But we have the most incompetent person as President. I don’t think he even knows what day it is. He gives his ten-minute speech — right back on vacation.
How would you like to be in Kabul today, as an American, and you can’t get to the airport? Where are you thinking your life is headed?
If you’re one of those family members, I bet you’re not sleeping.
I don’t even think My Pillow can do it. MyPillow.com. That’s where I go. I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep longer. These are going to be a lot of sleepless nights for so many of our fellow Americans. We’ve got to get them home.
Okay, yes, I know… this is supposed to be a humor column. I’m supposed to invent silly, amke-believe stories, to try and bring a little humor to situations — sometimes, to situations that are not the slightest bit funny.
But that is an honest transcript of Mr. Hannity’s comments on Fox News. Do we find it darkly amusing?
Speaking of honesty, I went directly to the MyPillow.com website to learn more about how I can fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. I figured, if Sean Hannity can sleep soundly, even knowing that the US has an incompetent President, I could also use some extra sleep.
And apparently, it was my lucky day, because no sooner did my browser open the page, then I was presented with a “10% OFF” offer from My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, who looks just as pleased with the whole situation as Mr. Hannity does.
This was my first visit to My Pillow, and I was delighted to see that Mr. Lindell also sells sheets and blankets. And you can purchase his autobiographical book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, by Mike Lindell. Numerous people have submitted testimonials to the website, including someone named Danie who wrote:
“I just finished Mike’s book and I am in tears! It gave me chills and I seriously cannot wait for him to write another. Hands down the best book I have ever read.”
Some books are just the ticket, if you are having trouble sleeping. Obviously, What Are the Odds? is an entirely different type of book. And with your My Pillow close at hand, and a blanket in case of chills, insomnia can be a thing of the past.
There is probably nothing more important, for Americans — what with the ongoing military and social disaster in Afghanistan, and the ongoing confusion about booster shots here in the US, and the worsening employment situation here in Pagosa Springs — there’s probably nothing more important than telling our friends and neighbors about My Pillow, and sleeping longer and faster.
Maybe we will wake up for our slumber, and realize it was all just a silly dream.
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all.