The Lean to the Left Podcast

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. The lack of leadership from Donald Trump as the coronavirus was first apparent in January through today has been appalling. Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron takes a look at that, including how the administration’s inaction and lack of foresight may put doctor...

It’s amazing…but it’s not surprising…how President Trump and right-wing governors are using the coronavirus pandemic to shove their pet projects and policies down our throats. In today’s podcast, Coronavirus: Trump’s Ultimate Excuse, we discuss three such examples, which became evident in just the last few days. Take a listen...Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/t...

In today’s podcast, we take a look at two guys that Donald Trump apparently listens to, one of whom is probably the one person who can pull us through this coronavirus pandemic with as little pain as possible…and the other, a self promoter who’s gotten rich off of pillows and says Trump was sent by God to save us all. And, for good measure, there’s some science based info from MIT that basically s...

The coronavirus news keeps getting scarier and now, Dr. Anthony Fauci…the one person I believe more than any other on this…says we could see between 100,000 and 200,000 people die. Already, today, we passed the 3,000 who were killed in the 9/11 attack, and the deaths mount every day. So our esteemed president, Donald trump, cited a report that upwards of 2.2 million could die if we  did nothing. S...

Last week, I was appalled to read that South Carolina’s senior Senator, Lindsey Graham, tried to hold up the $2 trillion coronavirus economic relief bill because he thought people – including nurses – might make more money from the expanded unemployment benefits than if they went to work. Hope he doesn’t get sick and need a nurse…just saying. Then, yesterday, his buddy, Donald Trump, practically a...

Trump’s words and inactions about the coronavirus are literally killing people. You could say we are experiencing the Donald Trump Holocaust. As of today, there were 120,763 coronavirus cases in the U.S. and 2,016 deaths. Trump was warned back in December that this was coming. He did nothing. In this episode, Not Fake News.biz writer Susan Hutchinson excoriates Trump for his slow, sluggish, inept...

A Joe Biden SuperPac called Priorities USA has been running a terrific ad that pairs President Trump’s comments about the coronavirus to an image of an ever growing timeline that shows increasing numbers of cases in the U.S.The ad has the Trump campaign so ticked off that their lawyers have sent a letter out to the stations threatening that the FCC could remove their operating licenses if they don...

Yesterday’s podcast was satire. This is not. It’s deadly serious. The question is really simple. What will we do if our hospitals and medical facilities can’t take care of us – not because of a lack of beds or not enough ventilators – but because the doctors and nurses are sick with the coronavirus? That is a scary thought, but it could happen largely because there aren’t enough face masks, gloves...

With the coronavirus news getting worse by the hour, it seems, Donald Trump is saying he wants to get everything back to normal by Easter, just a couple weeks away. He says we can’t let the cure – shutting down the economy – be worse than the illness – hundreds of people dying from the coronavirus. And so, he hopes we can have the churches packed on Easter Sunday and everything raring to go. So th...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the United States with the number of confirmed cases and deaths continuing to accelerate, it’s become clear that basic medical supplies – including lifesaving ventilators – is in desperate short supply. Ventilators are needed in severe coronavirus cases to help people in respiratory distress to breath, and without it, many will not survive. Bu...

In this episode, we explore why … in the 223 years since George Washington left the presidency in 1797, no woman has been elected to lead our nation. We brought together a panel of knowledgeable, politically astute women, to discuss this question in commemoration of International Women’s Day March 8.They are:Susan Hutchinson, a retired medical technologist active in the Democratic Party in South C...

I was struck by two opinion columns today that I believe, combined, put the situation our country faces today with the Coronavirus epidemic into perspective. One discusses how a major political party’s lies to the American people have made it “dangerous” to the nation. The other recalls the promise of America, and the extent to which that is now gone. That, too, is a danger to America. Take a list...

Every day millions of Americans, whose life savings is in the stock market in one form or another, watch those savings disappear as the catastrophic impact of the coronavirus becomes increasingly apparent. Big time Wall Street investors are worried sick, and so are the rest of us – especially those of us whose retirement savings have been invested there. Had we known about the terrible toll this w...

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, at a time when virtually every American is worried sick, if not actually sick, President Donald Trump continues to attack, and the media is his favorite target. During his lengthy press briefings this week, he’s at least twice attacked news reporters and outlets he doesn’t like, even when thrown a softball question that would have given him a chance to provi...

Today, Friday, March 20, we published two blogs by Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron that focus on two important aspects of the coronavirus pandemic – Donald Trump’s penchant for calling it the “China virus” and his proposal to send voters a check for up to $2,000 as part of his emergency economic recovery plan. Waldron believes Trump’s “China virus” label is a racist effort to cast blame and is...

 Today President Trump and other administration officials held a news conference that apparently was intended to calm coronavirus fears as well as Wall Street jitters, as nearly all of the stock market gains since his election have been lost. That, of course, is the big deal for Trump. That and the fact that a probable recession could doom his chances for re-election. So today he claimed that FDA...

Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron talks about leadership – our nation’s desperate need today for strong, wise and decisive leadership by someone the American people can trust. In this blog written for Not Fake News, Chris discusses some of the key qualities that good leaders possess and the need for someone who can unite us in this time of crisis. I’ll narrate this blog for Chris. Take a listen…B...

Today we present the Bob & Jackie Show, the famous YouTube presentation that features silly and useless commentary with me and my wacky wife, Jackie. What prompted this episode was an email Jackie received from Team Trump inviting her to a special dinner with VIP access with Donald Trump. Take a listen for Jackie’s reaction in this episode of The Bob & Jackie Show, “Dinner with Trump.” Become a su...

Have you ever noticed how members of the Trump administration dodge questions from reporters, shucking and jiving, avoiding…doing almost anything to not answer what might be a difficult or embarrassing question. Politicians always do this and all too often the media lets them get away with it. But sometimes not, and that seems to really tick off the Trump people, including Mr. Big Shot himself. No...

With all of the health, economic and technical experts at the disposal of the president of the United States, how comforting would it be if you knew that one of the sources used to create a response to the coronavirus was ideas crowdsourced from Facebook? Come to think of it, probably not that surprising at all, considering the fact that Trump doesn’t like science and prefers spinnable BS.But acco...

I have to say, I was surprised when House Democrats and President Trump quickly reached agreement on a bill to help the American people weather the coronavirus pandemic. Just a few days ago, I predicted it would take weeks, or longer. That, of course, was based on the record of discord and disagreement that has permeated Washington ever since Trump’s election. But surprise, surprise. They actually...

As each day passes, the news about the coronavirus continues to get worse. Today, President Trump declared a state of emergency, which will free up additional federal assistance and some form of action is expected to come from Congress. Meanwhile, thoughSelf-interest, social media, and a President who dismisses science could worsen the impact of the coronavirus on all of us. In a Not Fake News.biz...

We are all reeling from the coronavirus, afraid to go to the grocery store and when we get there, discover that they’re out of sanitary wipes and toilet paper. We’re worried about our jobs, our incomes, or livelihoods – to say nothing about our health and that of our friends and family. Yet the Trump administration’s response so far has been pitiful. In the March 12 blog on Not Fake News.biz, Chri...

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. So, the stock market had a nice bounce back yesterday, gaining back more than half of Monday’s 2,000-plus point loss caused by concerns about the coronavirus and other oil-related jitters. Why did it rebound? Because investors liked hearing that Washington is w...

Today we are experiencing some of the shock waves caused by the corona virus and the Trump administration’s late – and weak – response, which has been made worse by Trump’s effort to minimize the seriousness of this pandemic and his irrational determination to place blame. When the stock market plunged by 2,000 points yesterday, it was partly the news media’s fault, Trump said. And, once again, he...