Incoherent script excerpt with vague references to political manipulation and a suspicious bottle

in the shape of a gun or a knife or a hand grenade. Both campaigns-- they have to focus on each other’ s opponents in desperate search of anything that can be deliberately misinterpreted to distract all the dumbed-down voters from the rea/issues like national security. At first, | thought that was the name of a bank. “Hurry up and invest your money at the National Security Bank--before they fail!” [Sarah and Todd start laughing hysterically. And what about earmarks? Why, they’ re just political hickies.... [Piper ts sitting on a rocking chair in her bedroom, with Trig on her lap, holding a bottle to his mouth with one hand, and continually licking her other hand in order to leave a saliva deposit, then smoothing down Trig’ s hair] PIPER; Come on now, Trig, | want you to drink your moose’ n’ banana shake. It tastes so delicious. And it’ s good for you too, even if the plastic bottle has poison lead in it because it’ s from China or somewhere. Listen, I' m sorry that you were like a circus prop at the convention. People screaming all over the place. But it’ s lucky they gave you a watchamacallit, a sedative so you could sleep through all that noise. And you didn’ t even know that you were being passed around like a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015156