Are the 60 Minutes memos real? I dunno. CBS certainly seems to be standing by them. But, as Kevin Drum notes over at Political Animal, serious news organizations are now raising questions about their authenticity, and that is not a matter to be taken lightly.

So, in an abundance of caution -- the kind of caution, I should add, that too many of our conservative friends didn't demonstrate as they were shamelessly pimping the phony-baloney Swift Boat allegations -- I'm going to pull yesterday's post on this subject from the site until things become a little clearer. If the memos eventually turn out to be genuine, I'll republish the post in its original space; otherwise, I'll replace it with a correction.

UPDATE: Josh Marshall has more.

MORE: Mark Kleiman observes that "it's quite possible that the documents were, in fact, forged, and that CBS was fooled," while noting that "possible isn't the same as certain." And Tom Maguire weighs in from the right with an interesting look at the checkerboard.

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