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.”
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. It’s quite a choice of hero to stand behind, especially for the same biased newspaper Michael Felger was… https://t.co/5ktY3kgWVS pic.twitter.com/dh0L0fYweG
— Boston Radio Watch®️ (@bostonradio) February 27, 2026
