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Via Deseret News
Glenn Beck will speak at festival’s patriotic service

PROVO — Radio and cable news personality Glenn Beck will speak at the patriotic service held in conjunction with America’s Freedom Festival at Provo.

Beck, who hosts his own cable news talk show on CNN Headline News, as well as his own radio show, is known for his candid opinions and strong sense of patriotism.

In addition to Beck, the June 29 service at Brigham Young University’s Marriott Center will feature singer Michael Ballam.

The service will also include performances by the Freedom Festival Concert Band.

The 7 p.m. event is free to the public.

“We’re honored that Glenn would accept our invitation to speak at this year’s patriotic service,” event chairman Boyd Craig said in a statement. “He joins a long, distinguished string of national, state and local leaders who, over the decades, have set aside political and other differences, and addressed the community as fellow Americans, unified in an Independence Day celebration of our common American heritage of family, freedom God and country.”

Beck will also host the 2008 Stadium of Fire event on the Fourth of July at BYU’s LaVell Edwards Stadium.

Via Campus Progress
By Kay Steiger
Five Minutes With Rachel Maddow
On gay marriage, Chris Matthews, and the youth vote.

CP: You started out doing activism and in academia for a long time and then you made a transition to radio and television. What prompted that transition?

RM: I started doing radio almost on a dare when I was supposed to be finishing my doctoral dissertation. I was living in western Massachusetts. I was crashing with friends. I was doing odd jobs. My scholarship money had run out, and I was not done with my doctorate. Some friends I was living with were connected to this local morning show, and I just showed up to an open audition. I did an on-air open audition, got hired on the spot, and started the next day. At that point I thought it was just going to be one more odd job in a series of very odd jobs, but I really fell in love with it. And after having done that first radio job for a year, I quit so that I could submit my dissertation and do my oral exams and everything, and actually get the doctorate. And I thought that’s it, that would have been my one year in radio, but I missed it a lot. I was like an addict. And I ended up getting the morning show there, and I realized that radio was probably going to be a permanent part of my life.

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