Do you see what I mean about the irrational hatred and lies spun as truth?
Palin does Jay Leno, and she is simultaneously making the rounds with a big TV Producer, to pitch a show about real life in Alaska. This puts her in L.A. - While there, she was INVITED to a gifting suite, where vendors give free swag to celebrities, hope for a picture with the celebrity to market their merch, and also have a table for an OPTIONAL opportunity to donate to a charity aligned with the vendor.
Palin accepts the invitation, knowing that the charity represented, benefits disaster relief for Haiti. Her daughter Bristol is with her, because Bristol filmed her part in a TV show dealing with teen pregnancy. Palin, has organized the schedule, so that all this stuff gets done in a single trip! (Leno appearance - TV Show pitch - Bristol's role being filmed)
She takes the gift bags with her.
This gets reported as her "gift grabbing" and "trying to rub elbows with the Hollywood people, she supposedly detests, but is now trying to become!"
Her personal donation to the Red Cross for Haiti relief efforts, is NOT reported at first.
This trashy made-up story then goes VIRAL over several days, and is picked up by news agencies, major blogs, and every conceivable media outlet possible. The comments against the "hillbilly gift grabber" and "hypocrite" are incendiary to say the least!
The owners of Silver Spoons, the vendor for the gift suite, gets word of what was reported about Palin's visit there, and they send the LA Times, which started much of this nonsense, a DEMAND for a notice of retraction as well as an apology to them, their vendors and Palin. Their message states that the inflammatory accusations were UNTRUE, and they give a detailed statement of what really occurred.
Only a few of these news agencies update their stories or print retractions. Even the ones that update their stories, do so in a few small paragraphs and leave the original stories up on their sites!
The rabid commenters to these blogs, see the updates, and yet still blast Palin for taking the gifts out of the location, not seeming to realize, that Palin had given back ALL of the merch to the vendors.
Why did she take it, then give it back?
Because, it was the plan to begin with!
She told the vendor that she would politely receive their gifts, but would give them back to be auctioned off for charity. When she takes them with her, they INCREASE IN VALUE so the objects get higher prices for auction.
Many, if not MOST, celebrities just KEEP their gifts. The few that return them for auctioning, do EXACTLY as Sarah Palin did... they bring them home, so that their value increases, then return them to be auctioned for charity.
But Palin gets CRUCIFIED when she makes such a gesture. 
At the end of the day, Palin ended up getting her and Bristol's hair done for free, and tried on some make up.
What did Palin exchange for the supposedly... "shameless" and "lavish" extravagance, she received?
She will have made alot of money for the charity, as well as donated $1700 dollars out of her own pocket for relief efforts in Haiti. She also created tremendous publicity for the vendors, and despite the lies the media originally told, she "graciously"
DID take photos with the staff of Silver Spoons, and their vendors, as well as accepted a request to autograph T-Shirts for the employees there.
And you wonder why I say things will change before long for her?
Karma alone, dictates that someone cannot endure such hate-filled blatant lies and personal assaults, while keeping a good character about it all, without it all flooding back to you, in positive results and reformed opinions of you really are as a person!
