Kirk Minihane said Kevin Cullen’s recent Boston Globe column from a Boston casino contained false details, including a claim about where he stayed. The dispute centers on a column written two weeks ago and revives the earlier 2018 suspension that followed Cullen’s lying about the Boston Marathon bombing.
Minihane said Cullen titled the piece “Betting on America” and tied it to the country’s 250th birthday. He also said Cullen wrote, “I am not a gambler,” and added “far from it.” Cullen’s column said he stayed at Encore because it had the cheapest hotel room in Boston.
Kevin Cullen at Encore Boston
Cullen wrote after a visit to Encore Boston in Everett, saying, “I walked around the casino and was struck by the diversity of the employees and the customers.” He added, “It looked like America.I didn’t gamble.”
Minihane challenged the hotel claim directly. He said he checked 25 other luxury hotels in Boston and all of them had cheaper rooms than Encore. On a recent show, he said, “That’s where he first gets in trouble – he writes something that’s not true, that he doesn’t check,” and, “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.”
Kirk Minihane on Cullen
Minihane also said, “Just so you know the Globe has an opinion writer who just makes s*** up,” and added, “I hope the Globe doesn’t fire him – he’s given us a lot of laughs over the years.” He said Cullen’s earlier Boston Marathon bombing column was “all a fabrication” and recalled that he turned Cullen in 8 years ago after suspecting the column was invented.
He went further in a response to the hotel claim, saying, “When you’re booking a hotel on the internet it’s humanly impossible to check into the wrong hotel,” followed by, “Can not happen,” “I don’t think he booked the wrong hotel,” and, “It’s on the screen right in front of you. It’s impossible to get this wrong. Impossible.”
The dispute leaves the same basic issue in place: Cullen says he visited Encore Boston and wrote honestly about the experience, while Minihane says the column’s hotel detail alone makes the rest unreliable. The Boston Globe has not been described as taking any immediate action.
