Right now, it’s still okay for journalists to make fun of Glenn Beck. But if he keeps his ratings up for much longer, it won’t be. BriWi will be calling into his show and saying that Beck has actually yet to get the credit he is due, comedians will be censured for making fun of him, Republican office-holders will have to apologize to him regularly, Mark Halperin will appear on his show (whoops, that already happened), Joe Klein will start comparing him to Glenn Greenwald.
It’s just a matter of time.