Posted on 10/13/2019 4:28:51 PM PDT by Twotone
As nobody else seems to celebrate Columbus Day, we might as well. So herewith some authentic Columbian music. This essay is adapted from my book A Song For The Season:
For a 15th century Italian explorer long out of favor with America's cultural elite, Christopher Columbus sure has a hammerlock on the standard repertoire. Cole Porter put him in the verse to a famous song:
As Dorothy Parker once said to her boyfriend 'Fare thee well' As Columbus announced When he knew he was bounced 'It was swell, Isabelle, swell...'
In those days (1935) Dorothy Parker was famous for leaving boyfriends. She was also a celebrated wit, so Porter is making a sly dig in attributing to her such a shopworn bon mot as "Fare thee well". On the other hand, he gives Christopher Columbus, bidding adieu to the Queen of Spain, a line of terrific if somewhat anachronistic cool, which brilliantly sets up the chorus:
It was Just One Of Those Things Just one of those fabulous flings...
If not Queen Isabella, what was Columbus' real turn-on? Ira Gershwin identified it in "How Long Has This Been Going On?"
Oh, I feel that I could melt Into heaven I'm hurled I know how Columbus felt Finding another world...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
American Minute with Bill Federer
Marco Polo, Islamic jihad, & the REAL reason Columbus sailed West
The animus is not about the man himself, but what he represents. Exploration, and pursuit of the Truth. Modern political correctness is more in line with stagnation and ignorance, tribalism, and depravity.
Don’t forget his first name, Christopher means “Christ Bearer”. Also, in his journals he gave God credit for the concept of a spherical planet and the idea to sail around it. These things are anathema to the baby killing heathens who are “our betters”.
Yep, that. And the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal. Columbus was Jewish as were many on his and other early expeditions.
It still is worthy of posting the flag on that day, if for no other reason than to irritate leftists.
The best part is, if they whine at you about being “anti-Native American”, you can curse them back for being anti-Italian.
Yeah - they condemn him for the same things the horde of illegals that they defend represent - invading and carrying deadly diseases and killing the current inhabitants.........
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