{"id":52992,"date":"2019-08-12T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=52992"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:03:41","slug":"charlie-pierce-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2019\/08\/12\/charlie-pierce-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Pierce Can Torture With the Best of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheCharlie Pierce wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“‘It’s hard. It’s really, really hard because my husband died by gun suicide,’ said Judy Schneider-Wallace, a former schoolteacher from Seattle.”<\/p>\n

Okay, Pierce: bring it, you’ve already broken my heart past repair.<\/p>\n

“She and her husband, Paul, were double victims of the economic collapse and of the financial-services vampires who both caused it and then profited by looting the lives they’d already ruined.”<\/p>\n

No, Charlie! No more!<\/p>\n

“They were in the process of renegotiating their mortgage with Wells Fargo, a process that brought grief to thousands of people across the country whose personal economies already were in tatters.”<\/p>\n

Okay. I’m far past the point of being able to handle this.<\/p>\n

“While they were wrestling with financial ruin, Paul shot himself to death on the first day of school.”<\/p>\n

No. You cannot do that, Pierce. You cannot lead readers down that path to a place so gruesome and grim, even though it is the truth.<\/p>\n

I would never do so. And that’s why I’m a baseball writer and Charlie Pierce is, funny names for politicians<\/a> aside, a real writer. I don’t always agree with him, but does he ever leave pretenders like Chait or Yglesias in the damn dust?<\/p>\n

My wife is good at talking to people and hearing their stories; it’s never been a thing I’m skilled at.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a> by Gioacchino Assereto<\/a>. It is in the public domain.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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