A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.
Palin: Smear or Gift? Pt. 2
Expectations for Sarah Palin's nomination speech before the media went nuts with the pregnancy story: How presidential is she? How well will she address [her foreign-policy experience, her real position on the Bridge to Nowhere, Troopergate...]?
Expectations for Sarah Palin's nomination speech after the media went nuts with the pregnancy story: How human is she? How well will she address how much she loves and supports her own daughter?
I'm not saying that the potential lemonade makes the truckload of lemons worth receiving. But which set of expectations would you rather have to beat?
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