Kevin Cullen, the columnist who’s previously been disciplined by the Boston Globe for lying, is back up to his old tricks, according to a leading broadcaster.
Kirk Minihane, a veteran radio guy in Boston, turned Cullen in eight years ago after Minihane suspected a column he wrote about the Boston Marathon bombing was all a fabrication.
Now Minihane says that one of Cullen’s latest columns in which he claims he’s not a gambler – written from a Boston casino – is riddled with untruths.
“Just so you know the Globe has an opinion writer who just makes s*** up,” Minihane said on a recent show. “I hope the Globe doesn’t fire him – he’s given us a lot of laughs over the years.”
Minihane’s show, with the help of exec producer and now Maine Wire chief editor Steve Robinson, once famously helped unmask Cullen’s fantasy for the truth.
Cullen was suspended from the paper in 2018 for lying about the Boston marathon bombing after then-WEEI host Minihane exposed him.
In various media appearances, Cullen had also implied that he was at the scene of the bombing, but it was a lie.
Two weeks ago he wrote a column “Betting on America,” allegedly based on the country’s 250th birthday – and curiously anchored by a visit he made to the Boston Encore, an Everett casino.
“I am not a gambler,” was the opening line, “far from it.”
But once Minihane read that Cullen then claimed in the column he actually meant to check into a different hotel (the Envoy) not one attached to a gambling parlor (the Encore), his antennae went up.
“When you’re booking a hotel on the internet it’s humanly impossible to check into the wrong hotel,” Minihane said. “Can not happen.”
“I don’t think he booked the wrong hotel,” Minihane said. “It’s on the screen right in front of you. It’s impossible to get this wrong. Impossible.”
If Cullen finds gambling so offensive, as he suggests in his column, why didn’t he check out of the casino and go to the Envoy which is allegedly the hotel he meant to check into? Minihane asks.
Minihane also noted that Cullen claimed he stuck with the Encore because it had the cheapest hotel room in Boston.
But Minihane checked with 25 other luxury hotels in Boston – all of which had cheaper rooms than the Encore.
“That’s where he first gets in trouble – he writes something that’s not true, that he doesn’t check,” Minihane said. “There’s no way that statement was factual. Impossible. So just based on that you can mock everything else as a lie. It’s just a flat-out lie.”
“I walked around the casino and was struck by the diversity of the employees and the customers,” Cullen wrote. “It looked like America.I didn’t gamble.”
Therein lies the secret premise to Cullen going to the casino – so he could talk about “diversity,” which is a theme of his pro-immigration, anti-Trump, anti-ICE columns, according to Minihane.
“This is how liberals operate – they make stuff up just to get to their point,” Minihane said. “Cullen did it again.”
Despite saying “I was never much of a gambler,” Cullen also writes, “it’s human nature to bet, and it’s human nature to cheat.”
It is entirely possible to mistake one similarly spelled word for another. Pharmacist do this so often that you will see on your prescription paperwork a description of what the pill should look like, i.e. color, shape, and what’s imprinted into it.
And you do want to check and make sure that the pills you have are the ones they’re describing and not something else.
Cullen is a known liar, the cheapest rate in town would be easy to check and I’m not surprised that he did something like this. But it is incredibly easy to make a mistake like registering for the wrong hotel with a similar name — the human brain sees what it expects to see and not what’s actually there.
It’s called “Hypoglycemia “ …….
And NOT to be confused with “ Dyslexia” ( the inability to read and understand words ) which is what the democrat golden boy Gavin Newsome has ……
Can you imagine having a president who can’t read ?
NOT “ HYPO “ …….” TYPO “ ….
Sorry for the misspelling by this foolish spellchecker .
Only an idiot would read the Boston Glob or any other of the main stream Communist media.
If this guy looses his writing gig he could have a great career in politics running as a democrat. The press would never call him out.
Lies and fantasies are the only thing that the globe publishes.
Even if Cullen gets fired by The Globe he would just fail upward. Mike Barnicle, who lost his job for “making shit up” found a soft landing at MSNBC where he instead, lies into a camera.