Former Boston Globe freelance writer Luke O'Neil says he never had any inkling to urinate on a dinner entree he served as a waiter 10 years ago to neoconservative William Kristol — as opposed to the earthy term he used while suggesting just that in the lede of a column he wrote last week.
"Well, the main reason I started with that is because it's very clearly a funny joke. And, you know, obviously I was never going to actually pee in somebody's dish – and I'm going to have to try really hard to not say the other word here, I'm told. … That would be a really insane thing to do. As I do in much of my writing, I was using crude hyperbole to sort of make a point …" O'Neil said during a radio interview Wednesday on WBUR FM-90.9.
An op-ed column published Wednesday by The Boston Globe stated that the author regretted not "pissing" in prominent neoconservative Bill Kristol's food several years ago before the newspaper changed the word to "defiling" before the newspaper changed it to "telling [him] … what I really thought about him."
The column, by Luke O'Neil, recounts a time when O'Neil was serving as a waiter at a restaurant in Cambridge that Kristol ate at.
