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On MSNBC Friday night, Ed Schultz proclaimed on his show that Sarah Palin's a phony for touring Haiti now, that the “earthquake happened 11 months ago” and now she's just doing it to plug her new book and reality show. (Ed seems to have missed the recent cholera outbreak. Who needs the Couric question about what newspapers he reads?) Since liberals usually equate traveling to desperate spots of global poverty with compassion, let's ask this question: When has Ed Schultz been to Haiti? A review of transcripts on Nexis and Google searches provide no shred of evidence that Schultz has cared enough to visit. But there he was in his New York studio — the one he may have threatened to burn down for leaving him out of network promos — trashing Palin as insincere at the top of his show: “The next stop on Sarah Palin’s grandstanding tour is Haiti.