The Washington Post’s Ann Gerhart takes a very sympathetic look at very sympathetic Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley today. You know the story’s going to be in the tank when Gerhart insists no one “sneered” at his adoring Jimmy Carter biography. (There’s no way that’s true, right, Steve Hayward?) Gerhart tiptoes around the growing list of corrections Brinkley’s going to need for the paperback edition. When asked when he’s going to release Kerry’s journals, he says that’s up to Kerry. Gerhart notes that as a change in answer, but doesn’t note that the previous answer (these are my personal commercial stash for exclusive New Yorker and Washington Monthly articles) was also to the Washington Post.

I should add that our man on NPR corrects me: Juan Williams did ask Brinkley about releasing the journals, and Brinkley then declared it was all up to Kerry. That’s in the middle of the story here.