Tedious truism. A lot of things are being claimed "and well known" about the Palins. Most of them outright smears. You try to sell me some Examiner, MSNBC, MSM tripe... no thanks.
I just pulled up 9,910 Google returns claiming Yamamoto referenced "a sleeping giant"--
Yet, in truth, it was an artifice of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!.
In similar fashion the hatchet-face on SNL had Sarah Palin saying all manner of mythic things--which Sarah Palin never said.
The Left is still dedicated to the destruction of Sarah Palin, arguably its greatest threat in 2008.
Their rabid jihad snaps at any straw man or invented scandal.