Ann Coulter Readers Confuse Michael Gross & Michael Joseph Gross

By Jason Boog 

michaelgross23.jpgYesterday conservative author Ann Coulter bashed author Michael Gross for his “gossip-girl digs at Sarah Palin” in a Vanity Fair article. In reality, the journalist Michael Joseph Gross wrote the profile in question, and the Coulter column buried Michael Gross under piles of misdirected hate mail.

Michael Gross wrote a letter to Coulter, asking for a correction: “You made a whopping big (though seemingly small) mistake in your column yesterday and I’m paying for it and I’m disgusted and so I am writing to ask you to help me stop the wave of sewage you’ve caused to wash up in my in-box. Your mistake was one that no one with a byline should make … your mistake has been compounded by the right-wing-nuts who read your column, and before that, by others whose reading skills apparently ain’t that great. So all month, I’ve been getting hate mail meant for Michael Joseph Gross.”

What do you think? Does the column merit a correction? Earlier this year, we interviewed Michael Gross about an embargoed review copy. (Via Gawker)