With Freepers going into apoplexy over the Killian Memos released last evening by CBS' 60 Minutes, there's now an effort to discount the memos as a forgery.

The rightie blogosphere is practically in a meltdown:

INDC Journal insists they're fake based on typeface and other forensic type stuff.(thanks Mathew)

Powerline(via Kevin Drum) appears to be the place for one stop shopping on the forgery front.Most believe it's a forgery but at least one contributor says that the typeset was available during that time.

It's noteworthy that the White House accepted the documents as real, even releasing the copies of them they received from CBS.

Weirdly, the thing I thought would be the most howled about part of this are the allegations of former Texas Lt. Governor Barnes, a Democrat. Barnes gave his story to 60 Minutes last evening, saying he helped Bush get into the Guard and offering him special treatment at the request of a (now deceased) Bush family friend. Josh Marshall has some telling analysis on this including the fact that noone is coming forward to refute Barnes' story. Further Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett has been sticking to the story that Bush didn't have to follow the direct order given him by his superior.

The White House for now at least, appears to be conceding that the memos are accurate and that Barnes is telling the truth. Either that or they're going to let their surrogates fight it out for them.

But according to Drum's sources CBS is very, very confident that the documents are genuine.