Earlier today, Andrew Sullivan linked to a post purported to have been written by Michael Barone.

It turns out that the post was bogus and wasn't written by Barone, as Sullivan now acknowledges.

I was suspicious as soon as I couldn't find the post on the homepage of Barone Blog, so I contacted Barone, who was kind enough to e-mail me back to say that he did not author the post.

Hackers...

Update: As Barone notes in another e-mail to me, Sullivan did more than acknowledge the hacking, he took the the initiative to contact Barone himself to check on the post's authenticity.

Update II: It now appears that this was the result of an internal error, according to US News' tech people, writes Barone in an e-mail to The New Editor.

It's good to hear that this wasn't a malicious act.

Update III: Here's Barone himself on the confusion that resulted when a post by US News' Bonnie Erbe was mistakenly added to Barone's blog.