Book: Whitey’s rage at black prez led to his capture (Howie Carr)

Boston Herald ^ | 2/11/13 | Howie Carr

[raccoonradio]

Can Whitey Bulger blame his own raging case of Obama Derangement Syndrome rather than a tabby cat for his 2011 capture?

That’s the suggestion in a bombshell new biography, “Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss,” by veteran Boston reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill.

When Whitey and moll Catherine Greig had been living in Santa Monica, Calif., as “Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Gasko,” Greig became close to Icelandic model Anna Bjornsdottir, bonding over the care of a stray cat. Whitey often joined them outside their apartment building.

But, Lehr and O’Neill write, Bjornsdottir and Whitey never spoke again after she “unabashedly” expressed admiration for the first black president.

“He practically exploded … disgusted that she could admire a black man as president ... Nothing was the same after. Whitey gave Anna the cold shoulder, would not even respond when she said hello to him. Anna Bjornsdottir, meanwhile, would not forget the old man’s sudden rage — or his angry, cold glare.”

In June 2011, watching a story on CNN, Bjornsdottir recognized the fugitive as her rabid racist neighbor. He was captured days later.

The book will be published next week by Crown.

Lehr and O’Neill say Whitey also spewed his racist views to Josh Bond, a young Boston University grad living next door. At one point, Bond asked Bulger to stop using the n-word so much, and Whitey replied:

“I’m old school. I don’t think the races should mix.”

So, in addition to everything else he is — is Whitey Bulger a Bitter Clinger?

Among other revelations in the book:

• Stevie Flemmi told the feds under oath that in 1981 Whitey said he was going to talk to his brother, then-Senate President William Bulger, about the “pressure” of state police investigations. Billy Bulger, under oath, denied involvement in an anonymous 1981 budget rider that would have forced the retirement of Lt. Col. Jack O’Donovan, vetoed by Gov. 
Edward J. King. Flemmi told the feds Billy “was not forthright when answering questions.”

• Whitey penned his memoirs in 2008 after watching a “60 Minutes” interview of hit man Johnny Martorano. Whitey’s opening line: “I have been driven to this by the lies of JM, and seeing his insane interview on ‘60 Minutes’ was the last straw.” Martorano said yesterday, “Why didn’t he just change the channel?”

• Until she went to serve her eight-year sentence in Minnesota, Greig stayed in touch with her octogenarian boyfriend. Lehr and O’Neill say messages were passed through a Bulger niece who sent her photos “with something personal from Whitey written on the back, such as ‘Those were the best years of my life.’ ”

• Despite endless references to their Irish heritage — and their digs at the English and the Yankees who once dominated the state — Whitey and Billy are one-quarter English through their 
paternal grandmother.

• Throughout his prison years, Whitey corresponded with the Rev. Robert Drinan, then dean of BC Law and later the first Catholic priest elected to Congress. While he was alive, Drinan never mentioned his connection to the mob boss.

• Whitey, locked up in Alcatraz when his kid brother was first elected in 1960, wrote a congratulatory note, saying politics “pays a good salary” and provides a “pension.” Whitey was more prophetic than he knew. Billy, at $200G a year, is the richer for it.

[Tublecane]

It’s not that there is no such thing as race. There are measurable genetic differences between, say, a “white” and a “black” person. It’s just that race is not so specif-c ordefinable a category as we pretend, and certainly there’s no such thing as racial purity. I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean, really. But you fall over backwards in the other direction when you deny race altogether.

[Gay State Conservative]

What Whitey's failed to realize is that Osama Obama’s white half is *at least* as filthy and worthless as his black half.I,personally,think of Osama as more of a product of white American than of black Africa.Both his white grandfather and mother were worthless Communist whores who had an enormous influence on him.Saul Alinsky—(posthumous) mentor.Billy Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn—living mentors.

[martin_fierro]

That's her on the right.

Yer welcome.

[driftless2]

What race is, is simply adaptation by humans to different climates and food sources. That’s it. Of course there’s mental and physical differences between ethnic groups. No denying that. But when many people think of race, they think of separate species of humans. There is no separate species.

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Both sides in the all-Catholic feud have managed to overlook the fact that a coalition of African/Americans, wealthy Liberals, many Jewish, and huge numbers of legal and illegal Hispanics have left them in the dust, and as the easy election of Princess Fauxcahontas might illustrate, are the people who actually run the state, with the cheap Catholic crooks cut out of the real action, probably still running numbers!

It's not like the old days. A lot of those wealthy Massachusetts liberals nowadays are BC grads, mostly Irish and Catholic.

[Kenny Bunk]

BC grads, mostly Irish and Catholic.

Don't forget
"I sent my son to Holy Cross,
He come back a total loss.

Many perfervid Catholic College "Intellectual" Pio Nono Christian Democrat/Socialists(Like Chrissie Wet Leg) and The Catholic Worker Movement could have used a short term in a Papal dungeon. These people crave acceptance by the Left.

If only I could explain that the Left heartily detests Catholics and are only using the Chrisssie Wetlegs in their "White Working Class Outreach Program." See any Bill O'Reilly show. PS. They also hate the "White Working Class".... especially the Catholic Branch.