Michael Moriarty, Ripped from the Headlines! - Page 2

If you think I am misrepresenting Moriarty, read his essay and the column by yours truly that he attacked.

Now, let’s look at those passages of the essay in question that supposedly respond to me.

Moriarty: “The following is taken from an Enter Stage Right article about Rudolph Giuliani:

“‘[David] Brooks says that a courageous politician shies away from social questions, but that's hogwash. John McCain is anti-abortion and supports the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And Giuliani doesn't shy away from such questions either. He is enthusiastically opposed to respecting American citizens' Second Amendment rights, and supports gay rights, women's right to abortion, and the rights of illegal immigrants.’”

“The author of this basically pro-Giuliani profile, Nicholas Stix, never lived under Giuliani's shining years as mayor. If he did, then he never read Bob Herbert of The New York Times. 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.”

It would be hard to pack more dishonesty into a single paragraph than Moriarty did in the preceding one. Far from writing a valentine to Giuliani, I called him a liar of presidential proportions, and noted that under Giuliani, the NYPD engaged in a fraudulent underreporting of crime statistics of revolutionary proportions, a systemic fraud that has continued unabated under Mayor Bloomberg. And as I showed almost seven years ago, a healthy chunk of Giuliani’s reduction in the welfare rolls was achieved through shifting tens of thousands of clients from welfare (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANP) to much better paying federal disability Supplemental Security Income, which is disbursed through the Social Security Administration, and which is not counted in the welfare statistics. I also noted that I did not support Giuliani for president. The aforementioned criticisms notwithstanding, I did say that I consider Giuliani the greatest mayor New York has ever had. That was due to his success at running the city, in the face of the attempt by a racist cabal led by Al Sharpton to get the city burned to the ground, rather than permit a white man to govern it. (Giuliani had beaten the city’s first and only black mayor, socialist David Dinkins, in the 1993 election.)

Article Author: Nicholas Stix

New York-based, dissident journalist Nicholas Stix, has the dubious distinction of being arguably America's most frequently censored writer, having at different times outraged black supremacists, socialists, feminists, white supremacists, paleocons, neocons and libertarians. …

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