A Freemason, A Catholic And A Muslim Walk Into A Bar

A Freemason, a Catholic and a Muslim walk into a bar...Millard Filmore is the bartender and Glenn Beck is sitting at the other end

Rumor has it Glenn Beck has been airing a series of shows on his GBTV.com that deal with the conspiracy theories about President Obama and the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood.  While such theories do have some worth in my mind, for the most part I brush them aside for this simple fact.  We have seen this video before.

Millard Filmore Was Anti-Everybody

Exhibit A:  The Freemasons. 

Since the conception of this country, the Freemasons have been a part of the shaping and governing. The fraternity began to flourish nearly simultaneously with the American experiment, leading to rumors of a Masonic conspiracy.  Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Adams, and many of the signers of the Declaration and Constitution have all been alleged to have been Masons.  In truth, Washington, Franklin, Samuel Adams (not John), and 13 signers of the Declaration were Freemasons. The conspiracies grew and grew to the point that America's first third political party was the Anti-Masonic Party that ran Millard Filmore as their Presidential ccandidate.

The Anti-Masonic Party Was Outdone By The Anti-Anti-Masonic Party, Which Insistently Included Millard Filmore

Exhibit B: Catholics

Almost immediately after President Kennedy announced that he was running for President, many believed that it was an attempt at the U.S government by the Pope.  Many Americans refused to vote for Kennedy because they feared he would answer to Rome before he would the Constitution.  Much of this was residue left over from the nativist, anti-Catholic (officially embodied by the Know-Nothing Party) sentiments that picked up where the Anti-Masonic Party left off.  Interestingly enough Millard Filmore was in involved with the Anti-Catholic movement too.  Back to Kennedy: Kennedy suffered immensely from his Catholic association and it took adding Lyndon Johnson to the ticket in order to bring southerners around. (a decent idea for Mitt Romney). Catholics overwhelming voted for Kennedy, and those that did not did so because the felt he was either too liberal or simply not Catholic enough. 

There Is Irony In This If You Look

Do I fear (as Beck would have me) that President Obama has allowed and is apart of an infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest ranks of the country? No, I do not. Do I think it might be a convenient tactic to keep him from a second term? Maybe.  Do I think we as Americans have a long history of fearing the worst so that we might only be half wrong? Absolutely.