What I found was what appears to be a hoax press release that appeared on webwire.com but has since disappeared. I found the text posted to
a sports forum (pretty sure there's no copyright issue on a hoax press release) and it reads:
NEW YORK, NY (October 29, 2008) Jessica Simpson, one of America’s most popular singers and actresses, says she will reveal the names of 30 men who are former lovers of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin – and according to sources, one of them is a married television station executive and one is a former police chief.
Simpson has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson rose to fame when she starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.” She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, an internationally successful pop rock singer and actress.
According to sources, six of the Palin’s lovers are from the state of Hawaii, five are from Idaho, one is from England and the rest are Alaskan. The list of names will be revealed “by the end of the week.”
“There should be no surprises on the list,” says a source.
Says Simpson: “Governor Palin is a woman of my own age and generation and success level and attractiveness who is rightfully being held up as a role model to young women nationwide. Given that she has thrust herself into the public eye, it is not just her political accomplishments should be held up to young woman as an example, but her sexual record as well.”
Simpson’s new country album, entitled “Do You Know,” debuted #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart this fall in both the US and Canada, led by the popularity of the single, “Come On Over.”
Simpson says Palin –- frequently ridiculed on the David Letterman Show as having the look of a “Lenscrafters spokesmodel” -- is far from a cold lifeless idol placed upon a pedestal, but is in reality “a living, breathing, very sensual and sexually active woman who has accomplished a lot -- and done it on her own political and sexual terms.”
The popular singer says she is releasing the list of names, apparently compiled by her celebrity security firm, to refute the double standard that cheers when men “play the field” before marriage but chastises women such as Palin and herself who do the same thing.
I'm concluding that this is a hoax, and quickly discovered at that, because it appears only on this forum and
a blog, whereas if the story had survived even a day, it would have wound up on every major outlet in America. Pretty funny, though.
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