Speaker 1: Bonnie and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the e I
Speaker 1: B Network. Great to have you, sir. Hello, ma'am, ma'am,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's okay, chum. Today is Columbus Day, and
Speaker 1: I would like you to talk about Christopher Columbus. Well,
Speaker 1: I have a stack of Christopher Columbus stuff here. Great. Great,
Speaker 1: it's not what you're gonna want to hear. Maybe. I
Speaker 1: think he was a great courageous visionary. I think he's
Speaker 1: a great role model for today's youth. He was an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: He if he didn't come here, if he didn't bump
Speaker 1: into America, who knows how the world would be different,
Speaker 1: but it would definitely be different. I know we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have cigars, that's right, we wouldn't have all this great food.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't have freedom because he really laid the foundation
Speaker 1: for that here. And I'm so frustrated when I hear
Speaker 1: that he all the only the bad things about him
Speaker 1: and all the guard which that's being taught in the
Speaker 1: schools about him. Um. And so I'd like to ask
Speaker 1: everybody to put their flag out today and maybe make
Speaker 1: a good, good dinner for their family and celebrate Columbus Day.
Speaker 1: All right, you bet, I'm glad. I'm glad you called.
Speaker 1: From the Rasmussen Reports web page, twenty four percent of
Speaker 1: Americans believe we should not honor Columbus with a national holiday.
Speaker 1: This is the result of government and multicultural education winning
Speaker 1: from Let's say, where's this? From the Washington Post Voice
Speaker 1: Rendsburger November one, went back to the archives, So this
Speaker 1: is uh what seventeen man, oh man, that's seventeen years ago.
Speaker 1: The chief rival position, called the Columbian theory, argues that
Speaker 1: there was no syphilis in Europe till Columbus took it there.
Speaker 1: Advocates of this view agree that what had been called
Speaker 1: been called leprosy was a mixture of true leprosy with
Speaker 1: other sexually transmitted diseases, but that none of them was syphilis.
Speaker 1: More likely, they argue, the other disease was gonna rhea,
Speaker 1: which my health teacher in junior high pronounced gungaria. Question,
Speaker 1: did Columbus give the world syphilis? And they've been debating this,
Speaker 1: you know, this is part of the multicultural curriculum. Now
Speaker 1: that that Columbus introduced racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, environmental destruction,
Speaker 1: syphilis and horses, which brought their own problems, and so
Speaker 1: they had actually been debating this did Columbus give the
Speaker 1: world syphilis? In the year fifteen dred. Not long after
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus and his crews began returning from their voyages
Speaker 1: to the New World, in epidemic epidemic of syphilis erupted
Speaker 1: in Europe. Shortly thereafter, more epidemics flared and swept across
Speaker 1: the continent, raging with much the same impact as AIDS
Speaker 1: does today. And remember this when this story is from
Speaker 1: so the theory there is that Columbus caught syphilis from
Speaker 1: the Indians or whoever it was he interacted with down there,
Speaker 1: and he and his crew uh took it back to
Speaker 1: Europe with him. UH. And there are countless stories in
Speaker 1: the stack today about what teachers are teaching kids about Columbus,
Speaker 1: and it's basically the the multicultural curriculum, that he was racist,
Speaker 1: a sexist, and bigoted and homophobic and brought all of
Speaker 1: those things to this country, uh, this the New World,
Speaker 1: on his uh, on his voyage. This is this is
Speaker 1: why I say, you know a lot of your kids
Speaker 1: are in school listening to the traditions and institutions that
Speaker 1: make this country great get trashed each and every day,
Speaker 1: and it's now gotten to the point that think we
Speaker 1: should not honor or have a Christopher Columbus Day.