Okay, the Sarah Palin/Paul Revere story just won't die. It’s like the Anthony Weiner twitpic saga, but without shots of bulging underwear.  On Sunday, Palin defended her creative interpretation of Revere's ride on Fox News. Meanwhile, her fans/supporters/followers (whatever the hell you call them) have been frantically working to rewrite history by editing Paul Revere's Wikipedia page to match Palin's account of Revolutionary War history. Now when I first heard Palin's telling of the ride of Paul Revere, it sounded really familiar to me.  This drove me nuts for a good hunk of Friday until it dawned on me that the former half-a-term Alaska governor must have gotten her education in American history from watching black and white Popeye the Sailor cartoons.

Here's  what Palin said….

"He who warned, uh, the ... British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."

And here's Popeye the Sailor giving Sweet Pea a lesson on George Washlincoln, the Pappy of his country from the 1941 cartoon "Child Psykolojiky," where Popeye struggles to convince Poopdeck Pappy that it's not right to beat children...

"Have you ever heard the story of George Washlincoln, the pappy of his country? Well, George Washlincoln was born when he was very young in a little log cabin. He ran through the streets on a horse yellin, "Wooo! Wooo! Wooo! The injuns are comin'." Then, with a hatchet, he chopped down a cherry tree and said, and this is importink, he said, "I cannot tell a lie," and he was made presidink of the United States."

If you go to the 1:26 mark of this Youtube video you can hear this stirring account of our nation's history from the Sailor who's strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach...