Protest Against The Buzz Comments
OKC radio station 94.7 FM “The Buzz” has a new show, the “Mo Radio Show” airing from 6-10am weekdays, deejayed by Bryan “Mo” Modzelewski. On June 29, 2005, Mo asked his listeners to call in and answer whether they would rather beat a woman or wake up one morning after having gay sex. Callers’ responses matched the “taste” of the question. For example, one caller stated that he would “rather beat a woman than be the woman.” Another had an eloquent answer: “Well, I choose beat a woman because I can think of reasons to beat a woman, and I couldn’t think of a reason to have gay sex.”
This is but one example of the extremely hateful comments Mo has made against women and the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual community on his weekday morning show. A group co-sponsored by Church of the Open Arms held a protest rally at noon on July 8, 2005 on the grass on the north side of 50 Penn Place. They asked for a sincere on-air apology from “The Buzz” every hour on the hour for at least 24 hours, as well as a verbal commitment not to make such statements in the future. They also asked that the station show their support of the programs in our community that fight the violence that Mo has promoted, by donating at least $1,000 to the Oklahoma City YWCA to help them fight against domestic abuse and sexual assault.
Eventually the radio station did apologize to women for seeming to advocate violence against them but did not apologize to gays.