What is it about Iraq that seems to trigger everyone’s Twitter impulse? First, Pete Hoekstra tweets what was supposed to be a top-secret congressional trip to Baghdad. Now we find out more about Stephen Colbert’s trip to an ostensibly undisclosed location in the Persian Gulf. And how did we learn?
Anyway, this will be one worth staying up late to watch.
UPDATE: I should point out/clarify that the headline here was meant to be my effort at irony. Colbert himself left little doubt where he was going in this interview with Stars and Stripes’ Stripes Central blog:
Comedian Stephen Colbert is headed to the Persian Gulf to entertain U.S. troops, but he won’t say where or when.
“I’m not supposed to tell anyone where I’m going, but just say it’s sandy and they’d like us to leave,” Colbert told Stars and Stripes on Tuesday.
The host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” said he was invited by Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, to entertain U.S. troops downrange.
“I’m hoping they’re just going to blindfold me, fly the plane around in the air for 12 hours and drop me in New Mexico and tell me it’s the Persian Gulf, because I wouldn’t know the difference,” he said.