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Title: The Clip Job
Review: Howie Carr says he hates Whitey and Billy Bulger. But he really loves them. He's been making his living off them for years. Without the Bulger bros., he'd be out of work. But you think that after all those years, he would have paid attention or at least tried to verify his facts. But I guess when you have your own radio show and newspaper column, you begin to believe that whatever you say or write has to be correct, without following through on your journalistic mandate to get it right! Aside from gleaning his facts from previously written articles by his fellow Herald scribes, Howie didn't even seem to bother to check the transcripts of all the court cases over the years. My advice--skip this clip job and read BRUTAL by Kevin Weeks. At least the stuff in his book was vetted by 3 juries, the DEA, the DOJ, the Mass. State Police, etc. And he's not a blowhard who thinks he's the second coming of Mike Royko or Jimmie Breslin. Sorry Howie, but you just get one star...
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