Case in point...uber-lefty Sean Penn spends a helluva lot more time than a few hours and a helluva lot more money than few dollars working in Haiti. We see a picture of him there and he gets dumped on for being nothing but a publicity hound.
Palin spends just a few hours and maybe some of her own money in Alabama. The pictures are posted within hours for all to see and she's a saint with the purist of motives.
I say nonsense.
Now, if we found out months later through some obscure source that she had made such a trip totally without cameras or facebook postings that would be different.