I flatter myself that anybody might remember it, but I put up a post a week or so ago mocking the very idea that the CBS memos were forged. Now that they seem to be, in fact, fake, maybe those imaginary people who remember the post would like to hear my reaction.

There were two common sense objections to the initial accusation of forgery, or so it seemed to me: first, that the information in the memos was confirmed, or at least supported, by stuff we already know. Bush really didn’t take a physical he was supposed to take. His family played a part in getting him in the Guard. These things are part of the record. The extent to which the documents advanced the story — ie, that his commanding officer complained of persistent pressure from above — seemed minor, and commonsensical. Nothing worth faking.

I still believe this. Nothing in the documents was worth the risk of faking them. As far as we now know — here I refer to the interview with the secretary — that the content of the memos are, at the very least, reflective of what Mr. Killian really thought. And like a lot of the pundits out there, I think it’s important that the White House released the memos with no comment. They knew the memos reflected what had actually happened… and since then, they’ve said nothing to contradict that.

Secondly, it seemed mind-boggling to think that anybody who would go to the trouble of getting all the names and facts right, would be so incredibly dumb as to just print them out on a computer.

Here, I can only admit, shamed, that even after doing this job for so many years, I still underestimated how dumb people can be.

Oh, and by the way… one other blog who linked to the post credited it to Adam. I’m afraid all the glory, and now shame, is mine and mine alone.