Has anyone else been on the edge of their seat all weekend to see if Stephen would mention Friday’s Sarah Palin Twitter slip-up/plan to get Stephen killed by Twitter-reading terrorists on last night’s show? If you missed it, Sarah announced to the world that Stephen’s upcoming trip to the Persian Gulf would be specifically to Iraq, a fact that has not only not been mentioned by the show, but has been deliberately obfuscated in order to tease it out with false leads and an interactive message board clue game that so far nobody has solved. And Stephen did mention it in the show intro, albeit cheekily, probably because coming out and admitting it would have ruined the “Is Stephen going to…The United Arab Emirates?” segment later in the show. I like to think of it as an inside joke between Stephen Colbert and blog readers, because I would like to think that, wouldn’t I?

The intro: he definitely doesn’t seem mad. Damn:

Stephen still cannot say where he’s going, but in honor of the fact that it might be the United Arab Emirates, he picked up some of their Sheik condoms:

It wasn’t the three-minute “Sarah Palin is on notice!” Colbert rant I’d hoped for, but they’d probably pre-written that United Arab Emirates segment weeks ago. Hopefully, once the “Where in the world” pieces are over and Stephen can announce his location, he’ll give her a piece of his mind for trying to get him MURDERED.