The Boston Globe is under fire after publishing an opinion piece suggesting that restaurant waitstaff tamper with Republicans' — par...
The Boston Globe is under fire after publishing an opinion piece suggesting that restaurant waitstaff tamper with Republicans' — particularly former President Trump staffers' — food.
What are the details of the article?
Opinion writer Luke O'Neil wrote the article, which has since been deleted, titled "Keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her sink."
O'Neil seemed to suggest that Republicans and former President Donald Trump staffers should be punished for not being Democrats or liberals.
"As for the waiters out there, I'm not saying you should tamper with anyone's food, as that could get you into trouble," O'Neill wrote in his article. "You might lose your serving job. But you'd be serving America. And you won't have any regrets years later."
O'Neil also admitted that one of his life's "biggest regrets" is not urinating in conservative pundit Bill Kristol's food when O'Neil was a server.
"One of the biggest regrets of my life is not pissing in Bill Kristol's salmon," O'Neil wrote. "I was waiting on the disgraced neoconservative pundit and chief Iraq War cheerleader about 10 years ago at a restaurant in Cambridge and to my eternal dismay, some combination of professionalism and pusillanimity prevented me from appropriately seasoning his entree."
You can read the original article via web archive here.
What is being said now?
Boston Globe editors apologized to readers in a note Thursday, and explained that O'Neil is not a staff writer for the publication.
"The Globe Opinion page has removed from its website an April 10 column by Luke O'Neil on former homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen because it did not receive sufficient editorial oversight and did not meet Globe standards," the statement read. "The Globe regrets its lack of vigilance on the matter. O'Neil is not on staff."
Before completely scrapping the article, the Globe attempted to salvage the mess.
"A version of this column as originally published did not meet Globe standards and has been changed," the statement read. "The Globe regrets the previous tone of the piece."
Has O'Neil said anything?
O'Neil issued an apology in a brief and sarcastic statement.
"I am sorry for my commentary regarding the warden of the baby jail," O'Neil told The Wrap in a statement.
“In the famously left wing media, you can write op-eds advocating for turning Muslim weddings into bloodbaths forever but if you say human rights violators or war criminals deserve a pube on their salad it's over the line," he added.
O'Neil told The Washington Post that while he isn't necessarily an advocate for defiling conservatives' meals, he does believe that former Trump staffers should be harassed in public.
"I wasn't really advocating to piss in somebody's food, that's crazy," O'Neil said, adding to the outlet that he was a regular contributor at the Globe. "But I do think these people should be made uncomfortable in public. I don't think that's a ... radical idea."
He added, "I do not apologize for it personally whatsoever."
As for O'Neil's fate at the Globe — which the outlet has remained mum on — it doesn't even matter.
"They completely cut my throat on this," he told the Post. "I will never write for them again."
Me too! I've worked food service for years and never experienced this kind of disgusting behavior but I would encounter food being left out for too long or put away hot so it wouldn't cool down fast enough enabling bacteria to grow...a lot! I'd watch ungloved preps switch from raw meat to cutting veggies without washing hands. I've seen employees pick their noses and then prepare food for customers immediately after, sneeze on food and then go ahead and serve it. When I witnessed this stuff I would stop them that instant and rebuke their actions and teach how to correct their mistakes but there was only one of me and hundreds of them most of the time so there is no way I caught even most of this stuff. The list is ENDLESS and most of it is done unconsciously or just sheer laziness to care enough to stop and do things right. I'm with you. If I don't personally KNOW the restaurant's management and some of it's staff then I don't eat there. My husband got e-coli poisoning once from some restaurant while he was a otr truck driver and that man was excreting blood for a week, deathly ill and knocked this 6'3" ex Marine down...hard! Food poisoning is very, VERY dangerous!
ReplyDeletewow you should run for office.
ReplyDeletei would vote for you.
edit) i was not laughing at you.
we are on the same side, you & i.
30 years ago i knew a guy who told me that when he and his friends worked at a fast food restaurant they would spit into the food and also put things from the floor onto the food. just because that was amusing for them.
ReplyDeletemy advice: do not eat any food that you did not prepare yourself.
....you are correct in much of what you say. As a former international sanitation expert & educator, my philosophy is always been...heat it above 165 degrees, and I'll eat it. If not, no thanks.
ReplyDelete"former international sanitation expert"
ReplyDeleteoh i am sorry but that is frickin hilarious
...yes, I can understand how to someone such as yourself...that might be humorous. Fortunately for myself, I had a very nice 25 year career with US DoD...all over their corrupt empire. In addition to my other Management Development, EEO, ADA, Title IX, Human Communication, Ego-State and Human Motivation educational responsibilities, I was also trained to manage, or teach others to manage over 20 different types of businesses on US Military Installations around the world. As part of that job-description, I was a Certified NSF Educator and Exam Proctor...and consistently received 100% on my own sanitation examinations and continuous testing in order to teach others about food borne illness and sanitation. So despite no college or university, I used all of that..."in-house-education"...provided by US DoD...and carved out a nice career. I lived all over the world, climbed Mt. Fuji, lived in a 600 year old home in Germany...and I ran a 4-hour-per-night, $20,000 per-night beer tent in Hungary. I even received a personal tour of Air Force One while stationed at Joint Base Andrews. I am now retired at the pay-grade of a Lt. Colonel with a tax free income and great benefits. So laugh away...as I do every time my wonderful pension check comes in...and when I think of how I beat US DoD in a Federal Whistle-blower Case, and forced them to retire me in such a great manner! Ha! Ha! Ha! So laugh away, but heat any hot food above 165 degrees if you'd like to avoid most food-borne illness.
ReplyDeleteRJ O'Guillory
...if I were not brain-damaged...I would run for office....Ha!
ReplyDeletei would still vote for you.
ReplyDeletehey your comment says "3 hours ago"
but i am pretty sure that my comment was about 30 minutes ago.
things that make you go hmm.