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.
Pirate Radio is the No. 1 radio station in Greeley. The station broadcasts 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.