Glenn Beck Surprises Fox Hosts By Saying Good, Smart Thing

Glenn Beck: He’s a citizen of the United States. So I say we uphold the laws and the constitution on citizens.
Brian Kilmeade: But he’s a threat to the country. That’s different!
Glenn Beck: So are a lot of citizens. If you’re a citizen [the government needs to] obey the laws and follows the constitution. He has all the rights under the constitution.
Brian Kilmeade: How about he tried to blow up a city block in the last 48 hours?
Glenn Beck: We don’t shred the constitution when it’s popular. We do the right thing.
–An exchange from a “Fox and Friends” segment that aired this morning about whether or not accused Times Square bomb-attempter Faisal Shahzad should be read his Miranda rights. It’s always good to learn that the world and people in it are more complex than we often think. Even Glenn Beck. Soon after making the surprisingly wise statement, Beck celebrated the torture of “the hairy-backed guy,” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and said that the Obama administration was “cozy with all our enemies.” But still.