Tag Archives: Billy Bulger

WSJ Beats Boston Dailies on Bulger Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured this Zusha Elinson piece about the latest verse in The Ballad of Whitey Bulger. Bulger Was Wary Of Prison Transfer Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger seemed to have good news when he called his attorney … Continue reading →

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The Lack Of The Irish

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Former Boston Globe reporter Gerard O’Neill has a new book out – Rogues and Redeemers – that the Wall Street Journal reviewer didn’t much like. There is something faintly ridiculous about [the St. Patrick’s Day] Boston celebrations of Irishness, the … Continue reading →

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Whiteyrama: Howie ‘Report’ Carr(d)

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Boston Herald hall monitor Howie Carr’s column today engages in the Greatest American Pastime: The Assigning of Blame. To wit: Weld, Dukakis and others deserve blame It takes more than two guys, no matter how monstrously evil they are, to … Continue reading →

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So Maybe It WASN’T The Ads That Nabbed Whitey Bulger (III)

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Count Boston Herald contributor Michele McPhee as the latest skeptic regarding the FBI’s ad campaign that supposedly led to his capture. FBI’s tip tale stinks as much as agency’s past Iceland? Seriously? We are expected to believe that a woman … Continue reading →

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