Columbus Day Under Assault

RUSH: Bonnie in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you, sir, hello. Ma’am! Sorry.

CALLER: That’s okay, Rush. Today is Columbus Day. And I would like you to talk about Christopher Columbus.

RUSH: Well, I have a stack of Christopher Columbus stuff here.

CALLER: Oh, great. Great.

RUSH: It’s not what you’re gonna want to hear.

CALLER: Maybe. (chuckles) I think he was a great, courageous visionary. I think he’s a great role model for today’s youth. He was an entrepreneur. If he didn’t come here, if he didn’t bump into America, who knows how the world would be different, but it would definitely be different.

RUSH: I know. We wouldn’t have cigars.

CALLER: (laughing) That’s right we wouldn’t have all this great food. We wouldn’t have freedom, because he really laid the foundation for that here. And I’m so frustrated when I hear only the bad things about him and all the garbage that they taught in the schools about him, and so I’d like to ask everybody to put their flag out today and maybe make a good dinner for their family and celebrate Columbus Day.

RUSH: All right.

CALLER: Thank you.

RUSH: You bet. I’m glad you called. From the Rasmussen Reports Web page: ‘Twenty-four percent of Americans believe we should not honor Columbus with a national holiday.’ This is the result of government and multicultural education winning. From, let’s see, where’s this from? The Washington Post. Boyce Rensberger, November 1, 1992. We went back to the archives. This is, what, seventeen…? Man, oh, man that’s seventeen years ago. ‘The chief rival position — called the Columbian theory — argues that there was no syphilis in Europe until Columbus took it there. Advocates of this view agree that ‘leprosy’ was a mixture of true leprosy with other sexually transmitted diseases, but that none of them was syphilis. More likely, they argue, the other disease was gonorrhea,’ which my health teacher in junior high be pronounced gong-gorrhea. ‘Question: Did Syphilis Sail to Europe With Columbus and Crew?’ And they’ve been debating this.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bonnie and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the e I
B Network. Great to have you, sir. Hello, ma'am, ma'am,
I'm sorry, that's okay, chum. Today is Columbus Day, and
I would like you to talk about Christopher Columbus. Well,
I have a stack of Christopher Columbus stuff here. Great. Great,
it's not what you're gonna want to hear. Maybe. I

(00:22):
think he was a great courageous visionary. I think he's
a great role model for today's youth. He was an entrepreneur.
He if he didn't come here, if he didn't bump
into America, who knows how the world would be different,
but it would definitely be different. I know we wouldn't
have cigars, that's right, we wouldn't have all this great food.

(00:47):
We wouldn't have freedom because he really laid the foundation
for that here. And I'm so frustrated when I hear
that he all the only the bad things about him
and all the guard which that's being taught in the
schools about him. Um. And so I'd like to ask
everybody to put their flag out today and maybe make

(01:07):
a good, good dinner for their family and celebrate Columbus Day.
All right, you bet, I'm glad. I'm glad you called.
From the Rasmussen Reports web page, twenty four percent of
Americans believe we should not honor Columbus with a national holiday.

(01:31):
This is the result of government and multicultural education winning
from Let's say, where's this? From the Washington Post Voice
Rendsburger November one, went back to the archives, So this
is uh what seventeen man, oh man, that's seventeen years ago.

(01:54):
The chief rival position, called the Columbian theory, argues that
there was no syphilis in Europe till Columbus took it there.
Advocates of this view agree that what had been called
been called leprosy was a mixture of true leprosy with
other sexually transmitted diseases, but that none of them was syphilis.
More likely, they argue, the other disease was gonna rhea,

(02:15):
which my health teacher in junior high pronounced gungaria. Question,
did Columbus give the world syphilis? And they've been debating this,
you know, this is part of the multicultural curriculum. Now
that that Columbus introduced racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, environmental destruction,
syphilis and horses, which brought their own problems, and so

(02:36):
they had actually been debating this did Columbus give the
world syphilis? In the year fifteen dred. Not long after
Christopher Columbus and his crews began returning from their voyages
to the New World, in epidemic epidemic of syphilis erupted
in Europe. Shortly thereafter, more epidemics flared and swept across
the continent, raging with much the same impact as AIDS

(02:57):
does today. And remember this when this story is from
so the theory there is that Columbus caught syphilis from
the Indians or whoever it was he interacted with down there,
and he and his crew uh took it back to
Europe with him. UH. And there are countless stories in
the stack today about what teachers are teaching kids about Columbus,

(03:21):
and it's basically the the multicultural curriculum, that he was racist,
a sexist, and bigoted and homophobic and brought all of
those things to this country, uh, this the New World,
on his uh, on his voyage. This is this is
why I say, you know a lot of your kids
are in school listening to the traditions and institutions that

(03:41):
make this country great get trashed each and every day,
and it's now gotten to the point that think we
should not honor or have a Christopher Columbus Day.