The Boston Globe columnist who previously was caught lying about being at the scene of a downtown bombing is now trying to make up for lost time on his latest gaffe.
Gaffe is actually too generous a description of Kevin Cullen’s most recent work of literature.
Cullen, who wrote sympathetically last week about a white Irish guy who was being deported as an illegal immigrant, faced a firestorm once a Boston media watchdog learned about the suspect’s alleged criminal record.
Now Cullen is trying to paper over his malaprops with a new column blaming “leaks” for exposing the truth about the detainee.
He writes that the suspect he wrote so glowingly about in an anti-ICE column just a few days ago “presented to many as a sympathetic figure caught in the grips of an overzealous government obsessed with arresting as many undocumented immigrants as possible. Then the leaks happened.”
Critics aren’t buying Cullen’s Cleanup In Aisle Cullen.
“The Globe and its convicted serial liar Kevin Cullen have really managed to back themselves into a corner here, and this contorted follow‑up only makes the situation worse,” reports media watcher Boston Radio Watch. “It’s quite a choice of hero to stand behind.
The crew at Boston Radio says Cullen’s defense is based on his claims that the detainee’s police record was outed due to “leaks “
“They’re calling these ‘leaks,’ but the material is nothing of the sort,” Boston Radio says. “It’s publicly available police reports and court documents involving restraining orders, alleged violations, and serious accusations of domestic violence, repeated threats to kill, and repeated use of racial slurs toward an ex‑wife who happens to be black.”
The scrappy Boston Herald, meanwhile, had fun putting Cullen to shame by publishing a detailed piece on the detainee’s police record, which says he “violated restraining orders” and threatened an American ex-wife.
He “wished death on her’ and said that “he was going to get her fired,” according to the Herald.
Cullen’s thumbsucker last week on the deportee raised the hackles of readers who knew his background as an alleged Irish drug suspect and domestic abuser – issues chronicled in the competing Herald and two Irish newspapers.
The problematic Cullen’’s work is well-known to Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of The Maine Wire and a former executive producer for the Howie Carr Show and Barstool Sports’ Kirk Minihane Show.
They famously helped unmask Cullen’s fantasy for the truth as a Globe “reporter.”
“Cullen was suspended from the paper in 2018 for lying about the Boston marathon bombing after then-WEEI host Kirk Minihane exposed his serial fabrications,” Robinson wrote in 2024. “In various media appearances, Cullen had implied that he was at the scene of the bombing, but that was a lie.”
The fallout from Cullen’s latest artwork has yet to be fully measured.
