Author of Vanity Fair Hit Piece Admits He Made "an Error" About the Central Feature of His Story

The Vanity Fair hit piece continues to fall apart:A writer for Vanity Fair has acknowledged a case of mistaken identity in an unflattering article about Sarah Palin in the magazine's October issue.In the article, Michael Joseph Gross describes Palin's youngest son, Trig, being pushed in a stroller before the start of a May rally in the Kansas City suburb of Independence. But the boy in the stroller was not Trig ? but another child with Down syndrome.The mother of the child, conservative activist Gina Loudon, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she thought Gross might have been confused during the rally and that she tried to explain she was the boy's mother, not Palin. She says he "just ignored facts."If you'll recall, this purported anecdote was a central feature of his story. After all, the anecdote was supposed to be proof of the narrative that he wanted to drive about Palin. The anecdote is featured in the first two paragraphs of the hit piece.Now that he's admitted that the anecdote that served as the central feature of his story was false, any reasonable person would have to conclude that the credibility of the rest of the story is false as well.

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