Colbert heads downrange, maybe New Mexico

[unhappycamper]

Stephen Colbert said he is headed downrange at the invitation of Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command. Expect the same type of biting humor about current events that you see on his show every night, he said.


Colbert heads downrange, maybe New Mexico
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, March 18, 2009

ARLINGTON, Va. — Stephen Colbert is OPSEC.

The host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” said he is headed to the Persian Gulf to entertain U.S. troops, but he repeatedly declined to give further details.

“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.

Who told him this?

“A man met me on a park bench, said ‘look straight ahead,’ and dropped a sack lunch next to me,” he said. “I picked it up. I assume it’s full of cash, I haven’t looked at it yet.”

Colbert would only say he will do a week of shows somewhere in the Persian Gulf from “a place that is packed with troops.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=61410

[grannie4peace]

1. yippee!!!!!!!

[Sherman A1]

2. GREAT!!!

Some REAL journalism finally arrives in the Gulf. :thumbsup:

[MADem]

3. ....just say it’s sandy and they’d like us to leave!!!

Hell, with the way things have been going for Americans in the last eight years, that could aptly describe...ARUBA!

[MADem]

4. Accursed doubleclick......