Charles Pierce writes a blog for Esquire. I think he is a fabulous writer. I enjoy his directness and insight. I remember when he let Boston Mayor Marty Walsh have it between the eyes for promising to support public schools while making a secret deal with the billionaires to privatize as many as a quarter of the city’s public schools. Pierce said Walsh was pulling a “full Scott Walker.”

 

Now his target is Rahm Emanuel. Pierce commends Bernie Sanders for throwing a rhetorical pie in Rahm’s face. Pierce knows that Rahm has been a disaster for public education in Chicago, a guy who believes that the way to fix education is to close down public schools and open charters to please his pals in high finance.

 

Pierce says that Bernie’s sharp repudiation of Rahm puts Hillary Clinton into a jam. What will she do? Thus far, she has avoided being photographed with him. How long can she manage that? (I am sorry but I was reminded of the famous and very sexist scene in “Public Enemy” when James Cagney shoves a grapefruit into Mae Clarke’s face, and I imagined Hillary doing that to Rahm. But I decided that was a very rude thing to suggest, and I am trying to maintain the spirit of civility. So forget I ever suggested it.)