Michael Moriarty and Me/Please Support WEJB/NSU!

Back in 2005, actor Michael Moriarty wrote a long rant attacking me, “A journey down the River Stix: The flirtatious dances of fascism.”

Elsewhere, Moriarty charged me with being a fascist who dreamed of becoming “President Giuliani’s speechwriter.”

Moriarty: “The author of this basically pro-Giuliani profile, Nicholas Stix, never lived under Giuliani's shining years as mayor. [Wrong.] If he did, then he never read Bob Herbert of The New York Times. [Wrong again.] When the New York Police Department so quickly begins to turn into the Los Angeles Police Department and horror stories of summary executions in Spanish Harlem [?] are listed and the whole series culminates in the torture of a Haitian immigrant in the basement toilet of an NYPD precinct house, well, you have a policy not entirely ordered by the Police Commissioner. You have a Mussolini somewhere in there. Since motive is the first question about crime, who benefited from the miraculous drop in crime? Mayor Giuliani did.

“The only plus side was the revelation of New York liberal hypocrisy at its worst. There were no protests about the evolving tyranny until the cops beat up a young Orthodox Jewish man. [They didn’t beat him up, a cop shot him dead, in self-defense.] Only then was a parade organized, with Al Sharpton at the head and the rabbis right behind him.”

During Giuliani’s tenure as mayor, I believed that he was the greatest mayor in New York City history. I still do. His greatness was measured by the evil he was confronted with, and bested. Black supremacists. White communists. The evil media.

Sound familiar?

A lesser man would have responded by eating the business end of a .38. Giuliani later confessed that some nights, he just locked himself in the bathroom and sobbed.

But my job was not to carry water for him. Thus, while I attacked the black supremacists like Al Sharpton, the Evil Media, etc., I wrote the greatest exposés of corruption in his administration: Investigative reports showing that Giuliani’s vaunted reduction in crime and welfare reform were both fraudulent. My August 1996 report in Chronicles magazine was the first national report of its kind. I have since written many more on New York City and other major cities around the country—Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, etc.

I intend to continue doing what I’ve been doing since 1989 in America. But I need your help.

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Sincerely,

Nicholas Stix