Now they tell us.
Newsweek's special election issue is chock full of juicy details about the man the media wanted to become president, one of which was that the billionaire Democrat was hellish on the help.
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One revealing incident transpired as John Kerry was preparing for a Time magazine photo shoot last February, and wanted to attend to his carefully maintained coiffure.
Turning to his butler and valet, Marvin Nicholson - whom Kerry brought along on the campaign trail to fetch everything from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to throat lozenges - the man-of-the-people Democrat demanded to know where his hairbrush was.
"Sir, I don't have it," Nicholson replied, after rummaging in the bags.
"Marvin, f---!" Kerry barked.
Press secretary David Wade tried to help, offering Kerry his own brush, but the temperamental billionaire rejected the help.
"I'm not using Wade's brush," he shot back, before cursing at his butler again.
"Marvin, f---, it's my Time photo shoot."
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