Glenn Beck is a phony fawning wannabe who is working much too hard to do the work that has been done by Rush and Levin. His true colors show on occasion as he sucks up to the Mormon Royalty types when he himself has no chance of being one of them. He doesn't even realize that he as a n00b convert will always be an outsider from that Speshul Group.
I don’t get this whole Glen Beck thing. I didn’t BEFORE I found out he was LDS. I saw him (and still do) as too much of a Rush wannabe.
And you are right, being a celebrity gains you more status in the LDS and some better jobs, but he will always be “looked down on” in favor of multi-generation “born in the Covenant” mormons like Mitt Romney.
Mitt will probably make GA someday, Beck never will.
Beck has done some good work, for example teaming up with Andrew Breitbart, but he has tied his little red caboose to the Conservative Train that has been chugging along for decades with Rush as the engineer and others like Levin as the firemen.
The "Cult of Beck" you can see on FR is actually pretty hilarious. Where else would you see FReepers idolizing someone with Beck's admitted character flaws? Kind of reminiscent of the ObaMessiah worshipers!