Posted on 01/13/2011 6:19:48 PM PST by Altura Ct.
A Greeley School Board member said he is getting death threats from people angered by his radio commentary.
Brett Reese has been reading a viewer’s letter critical of Dr. Martin Luther King twice a day on the Greeley radio station 104.7 Pirate Radio.
The station claims to broadcast to 40,000 people per day. With the recent commentary, more people than ever before are paying attention.
Reese is even receiving death threats and carrying a gun.
The commentary is quite controversial. It calls King a sexual degenerate, plagiarist and an America-hating communist. Reese said the commentary was sent by a listener three years ago and he aired it after doing fact-checking.
“All we are doing is airing something that a listener gave us complete with a disclaimer saying we might not even agree with what this guy is saying. We are putting it on the air and people are having a fit,” Reese said.
Reese said that he is not a racist and that he agrees that King was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He maintains that discussing King’s personal life should not be off limits.
Some residents are very unhappy with the decision.
“It’s very disappointing and I know he stands behind the freedom of First Amendment rights and speech, but in this case there’s no tolerance for that in our community,” Greeley resident Mike Johnson said about the broadcasts.
Reese said after a school board member called the local paper, the board voted to condemn the commentary. The school board voted 6-1 Monday night to adopt a statement distancing itself from Reese. Reese voted “no” and then walked out.
“They’re pompous, they’re arrogant. I tell that to them and I’m not afraid to say that kind of stuff on the camera, which is why they want to see me go down,” Reese said.
Reese said that calls to the station are split in half between supporters and opponents. He also said that he has lost advertisers but will continue to run the commentary.
“I believe in journalism and I don’t believe in bowing down to pressure of any kind, ever,” Reese said.
Reese has been reading the letter over the air for the past three years. It went unnoticed until the school board complained. He will continue reading the letter until Martin Luther King Day.
Not too far off the mark.
Bullseye, IMO.
But watch out if you bring up some unpleasant facts about a left icon...
Give them their false hero; on Monday Americans can celebrate it as whatever they want. In the South it is also Robert E. Lee Day, and in Virginia it is Lee-Jackson-King Day. We can always just call it “Martin Luther Day”.
Actually it's right on the mark. He fact checked everything in the letter before he first read it. His mistake is not substituting the name Palin for King, then facts wouldn't even make a difference.
We celebrate Robert E Lee’s birthday in our house. I’m related.
Not too far off the mark.
But...but...but...he was a Republican!
That's what we'll be seeing here in a few days when a segment of the FReeper universe starts to honor this fraud.
At best, MLK was a RINO of the same strain of "Fighting" Bob La Follette. The reality is that this divisive and damaging figure was extremely pro-union, anti-military (he joined with the white, suburban hippies in that regard), stood against the Tenth Amendment and paved the way for the evils of affirmative action. Race hustler Jesse Jackson and others of that ilk were enabled by MLK.
Solidly Conservative and fierce Communist foe Jesse Helms had this fool and leftist nailed when he stated:
King associated with identified members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), with persons who were former members of or close to the CPUSA, and with CPUSA front organizations. In some important respects King's civil rights activities and later his opposition to the Vietnam war were strongly influenced by and dependent on these associations.
Sure Martin Luther King may have had an 'R' next to his name but a more apt symbol would be the hammer and sickle.
http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=8059
An Open Letter to the Free Thinking Teachers and Parents of School District 6
Posted by Mike Bauman
January 12, 2011
Dear Fellow Free Thinkers:
The purpose of this letter is to address what has been characterized as an egregious and unwarranted affront to our American sensibilities by school board member Brett Reese.
The media has reported that Reese is attacking a national hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Snippets of a strongly worded diatribe have been aired in which Reese is heard calling King a “sexual degenerate” and other names.
Like most of you, my initial reaction to this message was revulsion. I was raised in a school system that regarded King as a sparkling hero of American history, a martyr of a truly noble cause, a man of great substance and undeniable morale character. To hear him denigrated was shocking.
[...]
Well, MLK plagiarized his Harvard dissertation. He was a serial womanizer. And in his last years, when he visited some of the northern cities such as Detroit, he started acting like an extremist.
But he had his good side, too. If blacks had followed his lead instead of the lead of Black Muslims, black power advocates, and others who came after King, things would have gone a lot better for all concerned.
Was he a Communist? I don’t think he was nearly as revolutionary as thousands of other leftists who swarmed our country. Certainly not as Communist as Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Barack Hussein Obama. J. Edgard Hoover kept a sharp eye on him, and I’m sure the KGB tried to manipulate him. But I don’t think they succeeded.
Last year, our church emailed a reminder that there would be no religious education classes because of the “Martin Luther holiday.” Catholic church. Loud snickers all around.
Oh no, he has blasphemed St. Marty!
Too late, Glenn Beck grabbed him for his own.
What’s the guy got against Martin Luther King? Sounds over the top to me.
Isn't that racist?
;)
MLK Jr. should be respected for his trying to raise his “people” and other Americans to think of ourselves as individuals, judged by character, not color. That said, he WAS very deviant in his private life. RFK (the saint of the Left) even ordered wiretaps on him. I have heard that on the day he was assassinated, two prostitutes were conveniently escorted AWAY from his motel room, lest the public find out.
Due to the hateful rhetoric spewed, as a result of the shooting of King, the town of Stamford, CT., called affectionately ‘a bedroom town of Manhattan’, in 1968, was razed over 50%, including the one veteran’s memorial that had names on it from the American Revolution forward.
During that summer, my family and I were traveling back to CT., by train from the Midwest. As we passed every major town, beginning with Chicago, our train was shot at, several times.
King was shot in the South. He was nowhere near the New England states, when he died.
Why else would J. Edgar Hoover have him on a watch list, if he were NOT a communist?
Me too ....................... FRegards
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