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.”
