Someone’s invented the Palin interview generator, so I don’t have to.

It works by Markov chaining, which I’ve had some fun with before (see here and here).

Basically, you pick — let’s say — two words from a corpus (in this case, Palin’s interviews), and use them to choose a likely third word (also from your corpus). Then pick a fourth word using words two and three. Word by word, you assemble whole sentences. Which I think might be how Palin constructs sentences herself, so bonus points for psychological reality.

Here’s a snippet.

Q: What is the role of the US in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Afghanistan will lead to war and it doesn’t have to lead, as I said, to a position like we are at a point, here, seven years later, on the side of the United States. I want you to not lose sight of the earth. That’s not a part of, I guess, that culture. The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums that have provided me a lot of perspective on the side of the message that Americans are getting sick and tired of politics as usual, that embracing of the status quo, the politics as usual, that embracing of the status quo, going with the Bush administration that we have to stand for that.

Cut to shot of Katie Couric, brow furrowed.