In a now-famous interview with the Associated Press, staunch political commentator Matt Damon slammed vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin for a number of completely valid reasons – one being that she allegedly claimed dinosaurs existed 4,000 years ago.

As it turns out, Jason Bourne Damon got it wrong. Palin never said 4,000 years; she said 6,000!

Mind you, that’s still 64,994,000 years off the mark – but hey, it’s better right?

The whistleblower who corrected Damon’s inaccuracy is apparently an old acquaintance of Palin’s named Philip Munger, a music teacher from the University of Alaska.

The Huffington Post reports:

After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.

 

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger…

 

[…] The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.

Wait – 1997?

Ah, that explains it – there was no Wikipedia back then. No wonder Palin got it wrong!

All is forgiven, Sarah. For the sake of the United States and Matt Damon, we are willing to believe that you no longer think dinosaurs and mankind coexisted.

If you still do, however, may we suggest you go here.