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Chris Salcedo opened his Thanksgiving broadcast by honoring the late Rush Limbaugh and carrying forward a tradition that too many in the media would rather see buried. On the Chris Salcedo Show he recited the “true story of Thanksgiving,” reminding viewers that this holiday was never meant to be a hollow apology tour but a celebration of gratitude and self-reliance.
Rush Limbaugh famously read the passage each year from his book, arguing that the common classroom version of Thanksgiving — where Pilgrims are helpless and Indians single-handedly save them — misses the point. Limbaugh traced the story back to William Bradford’s journals and insisted Thanksgiving was a devout expression of gratitude to God for survival and for the hard work that led to bounty, not a socialist morality play.
More than sentimental history, Limbaugh turned the Thanksgiving account into a warning about collectivism: the Pilgrims’ experiment with communal ownership failed, but when they embraced property, personal responsibility and incentives, they prospered. That truth — that freedom and free markets produce abundance where forced equality produces scarcity — is exactly the lesson the left’s curriculum seeks to erase.
Salcedo did the country a service by keeping that message alive on a national platform, refusing to let woke historians rewrite our past into a lecture on American guilt. Conservatives who love this country recognize that Thanksgiving is about faith, family and the values that built a nation, not about performing contrition on demand for the sake of political theater. News outlets that still tell the whole story deserve our attention and our support.
This is bigger than nostalgia. The push to sanitize or weaponize our history goes hand in hand with the push to centralize power and teach dependence on government rather than dependence on God and the dignity of work. Chris Salcedo’s program — aired on conservative networks and streaming platforms that mainstream TV ignores — is a reminder that patriots must defend not just our traditions but the ideas that produced them.
So this Thanksgiving, take a moment to listen to Rush’s original telling and to the conservatives who keep his memory alive; teach your children that gratitude is rooted in faith and industry, not in a politics of shame. Turn off the cable narrative that wants you to feel guilty for being proud of America’s founding virtues, and instead hand those virtues down with courage and clarity. The story of Thanksgiving is a call to preserve liberty, and men and women like Chris Salcedo are doing the hard work of keeping that call ringing.
