Tomorrow is Columbus Day, and in honor of that, we have Michael Knowles, the host of the Michael

Knowles show and resident expert on Christopher Columbus joining us now.

Hey, Michael.

I wanted to get your perspective on this.

Curious, one thing, if it's changed over the years.

So we've had a lot of criticism of Columbus, and it's really ramped up in

recent decades. This has started a while back, but now it's really amplified, where you hear

nothing but negatives. Do the critics have any, you know, merit to some of their complaints

about him? No, they don't. Though I'm thrilled to be here as the Italian correspondent of the Daily Wire.

I'm the only one with some of that swarthy DNA.

Some of that's pain on, but it's fine.

Yes, that's right.

I love Columbus.

I have defended him for a long time.

And you're right.

There have been waves of attacks, the most recent kicking off again in 2006. And you're right. There have been waves of attacks the most recent kicking

off again in 2006. And the spate of headlines that inaugurated this was the suggestion that a new

document uncovered that Columbus was really a terrible, no good, dirty run scoundrel. And there was

some document that was circulating around the time in 2006. What they didn't tell you about the document, though, is that the document was authored by Francisco de Bobadilla, who was Columbus's chief political rival. So it would be like saying, hey, we now know the truth about Donald Trump. Look at this tweet by Hillary Clinton.

You know, now we know. And ironically, Columbus, I think, has been maligned in part because he wasn't

a particularly shrewd Machiavellian politician. And so his political rivals, he was the greatest

navigator ever. He was an intrepid, deeply faithful man to whom we owe

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