John Kerry summoned Evan Thomas of Newsweek to his home to complain about the magazine's post-election coverage

National Review, Jan 31, 2005

* John Kerry summoned Evan Thomas of Newsweek to his home to complain about the magazine's post-election coverage. After Thomas left, Kerry followed him to show him a note from a schoolgirl saying that he was "the greatest." Kerry then said, "The pundits have never liked me. Is it the way I look? The way I sound?" This is pathetic--as many people, including liberals who supported Kerry but now scorn him as a poor candidate, have noted.

But is it any more pathetic than the reaction of those liberals to Kerry's defeat? They, too, have consoled themselves with the thought that the young like them. They, too, have assumed that their problem lies with the pundits: They have grown even more obsessed by the idea that they need to counter Fox News. They, too, have agonized over how to present themselves: If they say the same things with a southern accent, will it go over better? Kerry appears unable to entertain the notion that any of his ideas were wrong for the country and rejected as such, and in that basic unwillingness to rethink he is a fitting spokesman for his side.