Stephen Colbert Torches ‘Dead-Eyed Lego Man Sean Hannity’ for Using Taliban Takeover as a Segue to One of His Sponsors

Stephen Colbert slammed Fox News host Sean Hannity for using the Taliban’s ongoing takeover of Afghanistan as a segue to one of his sponsors.

“Anyone with a shred of a soul feels for the Afghan people,” Colbert said on Tuesday’s Late Show. “So, naturally, that excludes Fox News host and dead-eyed Lego man Sean Hannity.”

The late-night host explained that during his radio show on Monday, Hannity “tastefully used the situation in Afghanistan” as a segue for a discount phone plan he was plugging.

“There is a stampede, not only out of Afghanistan but a stampede away from high prices, overpriced service from the big carriers like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile,” Hannity said, promoting his sponsor.

“He used the fall of Kabul ― the tragic culmination of 20 years of U.S. sacrifice of lives and resources ― as a clever segue to a sponsor,” said a horrified Colbert.

The host then took a shot at his own version of an insensitive advertisement, using another tragic historical event as a segue to a mock sponsor.

He went on to air a video of the Hindenburg disaster as someone, using their best infomercial voice, remarked that the airship was bursting into flames, “Much like the burst of flavor of Double Bubble Gum!”

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