Voight-Kampff, excerpts

CHARLIE GIBSON: You’re in Juneau, walking along the snow, when all of a sudden you look down—
SARAH PALIN: Why?
GIBSON: Why what?
PALIN: Why am I in Juneau?
GIBSON: It doesn’t make any difference—
PALIN: But, how come I’d be there? Oh, you know, Todd’s got a snow machine race outside Wasilla tomorrow and—
GIBSON: Maybe you’re on state business. Maybe you want to do some governing. Who knows? You look down—
PALIN: Do I get a per diem for this?

GIBSON: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the Alaskan sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping.
PALIN: You’re darn tootin’ we’re gonna help out with those turtles that are in our American tundras that are hurtin’ in this time of economic crisis in America! Also, I’d like to talk for just a minute about energy again, which…

GIBSON: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… your running mate.
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?

7 thoughts on “Voight-Kampff, excerpts

  1. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Bridges to Nowhere dissolve in PR flames. I’ve seen Russia rear its head across a narrow maritime border. All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in the rain.

  2. Gibson: She’s a moron, isn’t she?
    Tyrell: I’m impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?
    Gibson: I don’t get it, Tyrell.
    Tyrell: How many questions?
    Gibson: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
    Tyrell: It took no more than two for Palin, didn’t it?
    Gibson: [realizing Sarah believes she's normal] She doesn’t know.
    Tyrell: She’s beginning to suspect, I think.
    Gibson: Suspect? How can she not know how stupid she is?
    Tyrell: Well… She’s a moron, isn’t she?

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