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President Giuliani's Speechwriter: Nicholas Stix

By Michael Moriarty

Oh, my first real veteran blog critic, Nicholas Stix! I was hoping one would show up. Prior to his appearance, I received a broadside from a right-wing homophobe, claiming all my work for Enter State Right was "hyperbole" – obvious and intentional exaggeration.

Now Stix "rides up" to basically say that my exaggerations were the flimsy product of "too much coffee to drink, or too many worries to handle, mind racing along at 1,000 miles per minute." His column about me, entitled Michael Moriarty: Ripped from the Headlines!, arrived via a friend in Europe who forwarded the link to me.

My first conclusion is that, despite what this critic says is evidence of solid journalism in his own work, he wants Giuliani to run for President. He claims that even if Giuliani were only a mediocre mayor, after what he did during 9/11, he would go down in history as "the greatest mayor New York ever had."

I wish Giuliani had been only a mediocre mayor like Robert F. Wagner, John Lindsay, Ed Koch and David Dinkins and that 9/11 had never happened. Stix’s opinion of Giuliani’s entrance and actions regarding the Twin Towers tragedy is, I offer, his own form of exaggeration.

He advises at the end of the column that I get a ghostwriter. I believe Stix is auditioning to be one of President Giuliani’s speechwriters. Loyalty is, above all, the first requirement for any member of an administration. That the prospective employee has proven journalistic medals and a researcher’s ability to veil issues with cold, hard facts is worthy of
Ted Turner’s series on The Cold War (so long that it just had to be right) or Gary Wills’ article on Why We Have No Right To Bear Arms for The Nation (so footnoted as to be undeniably true).

Stix’s likening me to Dick Wolf must have evinced from him a gleeful "that’ll hurt Moriarty, I bet." Most close watchers of Law and Order, of which Stix is a self-professed expert, know that if there is a divide in professional entertainment between an employer and his employee, none could surpass the Grand Canyon that exists between Wolf and I.

Wolf is one of the most thriving careerists in the history of television. I’m proud to say that I am one of the most self-destructive personalities in showbiz.

Stix says I have too many worries to handle. Well, if his idea of a life is to offer up Giuliani for President of the United States, I have plenty to worry about. Clearly, Stix is on the conservative side of a phenomenon that is always nascent in every university graduate: intellectual supremacy. I don’t know what head of the faculty he thinks he’s making points with by proclaiming his research is better than mine. It’s not the Dean’s hands the future of the United States is resting in.

It is up to the American people as a jury to decide. For a New Yorker to offer up Giuliani as a great idea for President just demands that another New Yorker express his strong opinion. I was one of the few New Yorkers to even see Stix’s mildly qualified hagiography of Giuliani. That Stix continued to shift the blame for what he describes as a phony drop in crime statistics cooked up in some political machine does not deny the fact that President Clinton, in so many words, ordered Giuliani to reduce the crime rate in New York City no matter what it took to achieve that objective. Clinton would see to making the Dow Jones rise miraculously, thereby helping Wall Street. Both "miracles" happened. That a classic photo taken at a law enforcement convention in Minnesota has Clinton pointing a police revolver directly into the camera and at the American people pretty much summarizes the preventative law enforcement philosophy: "You’re guilty until proven innocent!" That kind of turns the American justice system upside down, doesn’t it?

Stix, as a pro-tem professor of Journalism, has given me bad grades for my leaps of logic, so to speak.  I reply that I’m not in his university, am not taking Journalism courses and don’t give a flying phonetic for his opinion of my writing. He’s an apologist for one of the worst mayors in New York City’s history.
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