Miami Wig Website Is The Luckiest Lil' Media Whore This Week

Hot Pants Cosmetics isn't the only Miami-based beauty company trying to capitalize on Palinpalooza. WigSalon.com released a little press release touting some totally authentic, and not made up at all story that a costumer had asked for a Wasilla wig special and not one, not two, not three but at least eight media outlets made mention of the fact that the company just so happens to sell wigs that kinda, sorta, maybe look like Palin's locks.

• The Wall Street Journal
• Us News & World Reports
• New York Magazine
• The Telegraph
• Huffington Post
• The Daily Mail
• The Ocala Star-Banner
• US Magazine

You know, if they're going to cover bullshit like this during a presidential race and the collapse of Wall Street, can they at least try to be original?

Kudos to WigSalon.com though. In a time when media outlets are desperate for advertising, they managed to get tons of free publicity for making a tenuous connection between their product and a media lightning rod.

--Kyle Munzenrieder