Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

Tom Harbin.com.

Welcome back to the second hour of our program on the line with us is Mark Potock, the

writer's speaker and expert on the American radical right for 20 years he helped

lead the Southern Poverty Law Center and exposing hate groups right-wing terrorism and

the rapidly increasing infiltration of extremist ideas into our political mainstream. His website is

Mark Potoc, P-O-T-O-K-N-T-O-K-T-O-K-T-O-K, Mark,

m-A-K, M-A-K, P-O-T-O-K.

Mark, welcome back to the program.

It's been a while.

Well, Tom, thanks for having me on.

It has been a while.

It's always nice hearing your voice and your thoughts on what's going on. I have seen conflicting stories. I've seen

several stories suggesting that this shooter down in Florida, Mr. Cruz, was a

member of a Florida fundamentalist right-wing, or you know, not

fundamentalist, what's the word, white supremacist, wing group right

and and then I've also seen a report I believe it was in

political uh... maybe even the washing post is in one of those one of the things that

i regularly read that said that said that the left got conned but that it was just

the this right wing this white white supremacist he wanted some publicity for his group so he

came out and he said oh yeah Chris is a member of our group

and it's not true what's the actual story here

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