Cameraman Attacked as Trump Whips Up Anti-Media Hate
Last night at President Trump's Build-a-Wall Rally in El Paso, TX, a red-MAGA hatted supporter tried to violently attack a cameraman from...
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Bob Gatty
Jan 2, 20192 min read
Journalist Killings Reach 53 in 2018
In a year in which President Trump repeatedly labeled the news media as "the enemy of the people," the number of journalists killed on...
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Bob Gatty
Dec 31, 20183 min read
2018: The 'Year of Lies'
For President Trump, 2018 was a lot of things, but one label stands out above the rest. For the purported leader of the free world, the...
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Bob Gatty
Dec 7, 20182 min read
The enemy of the people? Does Trump have a mirror?
Yesterday, shortly after a bomb threat forced evacuation of CNN headquarters in New York, President Trump sent another vitriolic Robert...
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Stacy Fitzgerald
Nov 13, 20183 min read
The President is a Bully. Black Women are His Favorite Targets
Though it shouldn’t be so, most Americans are now accustomed to the president of the United States having frequent, uncontrolled juvenile...
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Bob Gatty
Nov 8, 20182 min read
Who is the 'Enemy of the People?'
President Trump continues his unrelenting attack on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees a free press, the...
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Bob Gatty
Nov 7, 20182 min read
A Look Ahead: Will it be War?
With the 2018 mid-term elections now in the history books, it's time to look ahead and it would be nice if that could rationally be done...
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Bob Gatty
Oct 22, 20183 min read
'Suffering' Under President Obama
Fellow blogger Teri Carter, a political columnist for the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader has published a blog describing how supporters of...
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Bob Gatty
Sep 15, 20183 min read
Not Fake News Celebrates First Anniversary
A year ago this month I decided to launch Not Fake News, this blog site that is dedicated to entertaining, informing, discussing,...
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Bob Gatty
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Bad Day at the White House
Today, President Trump awakened to a blitzkrieg of rotten news and it had to send him around the bend. I'm willing to bet it was a really...
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Bob Gatty
Sep 1, 20182 min read
America the Beautiful
It was a remarkable, in today's atmosphere of hatred, vitriol and division, to see two former adversaries of the late Sen. John McCain,...
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Bob Gatty
Aug 24, 20181 min read
Trump Gets Shafted -- Again
I swore today I was not going to write another Donald Trump blog, but then I saw the pic above sent to me by loyal Not Fake News...
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Bob Gatty
Aug 12, 20182 min read
Trump's War Against the Free Press Must End
Newspapers across the country will publish editorials Thursday, August 16, calling out President Trump for his vicious and dangerous...
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Bob Gatty
Aug 5, 20182 min read
WHO is the ENEMY of the PEOPLE?
President Trump continues his war against the news media calling journalists "the Enemy of the People," a tactic that might whip up his...
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Stacy Fitzgerald
Jul 30, 20183 min read
Trump Jumps the Shark on Alternative Reality
One would expect that the presidential administration that coined the phrase “alternative facts” would play fast and loose with realism,...
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Bob Gatty
Jul 23, 20181 min read
Stupid Headlines Crack Me Up
With all of the nastiness going on in the world today, Trump playing kissipoo with Putin, Trump playing macho man with the nutcase...
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Bob Gatty
Jun 29, 20183 min read
Slain Journalists - Unsung Heroes
In Washington, DC, there is a wall that contains the names of 2,323 people who should be considered heroes to all freedom loving people....
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Bob Gatty
May 28, 20182 min read
Did Sirhan Sirhan Kill Bobby Kennedy? His Son, RFK, Jr. Says No
It was late the night of June 5,1968 and the teletype machines in the Newark, NJ bureau of United Press International bureau flashed the...
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Bob Gatty
Mar 12, 20183 min read
It All Began in 'Smoketown' & at The Pittsburgh Courier
A new book. "Smoketown," by Mark Whitaker, talks about the black community in Pittsburgh, PA, its contributions to music, the arts,...
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Bob Gatty
Mar 11, 20182 min read
Study: Fake News Spreads Faster & Farther Than the Truth
According to a just published study by Science, Twitter postings from 2006 to 2017 show that false news spreads faster and father than...
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Lean to the Left provides liberal political commentary about important developments involving Republicans and Democrats in power, and supports efforts to resist those who would subvert democracy and impede freedom of the press. We also present the Lean to the Left podcast and videos, with newsmaker interviews and progressive commentary.
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