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Two newsroom veterans ask the question "Did they really say that?" responding to the week's oddest sound cuts from politics, entertainment, sports and the world.Nancy Shack - A newsroom editor... more
FAQs about NewsByte:How many episodes does NewsByte have?The podcast currently has 343 episodes available.
May 25, 2020Hydroxy Double Dare and Joe Biden Explores Irony from the BasementThe President unleashed a furor this week by announcing he is taking a course of Hydroxycholoraquin as a preventaive for Covid-19. Reaction ranged from NY Sen. Schumer calling him a liar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling him fat and Fox News anchor Neal Cavuto saying he is killing people. Meanwhile former Vice-President Joe Biden, still in his basement, is having more memory issues about Tara Reade, Gen. Michael Flynn and generally what day it is........more32minPlay
May 18, 2020A First Lady Makes A Surprising Statement, A Bizarre SCOTUS Oral Argument, and a News Anchor Plays Fast and Loose with the FactsFormer First Lady Michelle Obama says children were a concession to her ambition (Who thinks of being First Lady as settling?), a Ren and Stimpy moment during a Supreme Court oral argument, and NBC's Chuck Todd gets caught fibbing in a live broadcast after editing a tape to prove his lie....more31minPlay
May 11, 2020Hypocrisy thy name is #MeToo, a Heartless Judge, and the Losers ClubIt looks like a different standard is being applied by outspoken members of the #MeToo movement to the woman who has accused former-Vice-President Joe Biden of sexual assault than was applied to the woman who accused conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Also in the line up, a texas woman trying to feed her kids is called selfish by a judge and President Trump labels republican naysayers losers....more29minPlay
May 04, 2020MaskGate, Let The Sunshine In, and You Can't Use Loser's Tickets at the Winner's WindowVice-President Mike Pence caught Holy Hell this week for touring the Mayo Clinic without a mask, the President was excoriated for suggesting that sunshine and disinfectant might be useful treatments for Covid-19, and people are starting to go over the cliff because of being quarantined and are yelling at each other.... and little children....more31minPlay
April 27, 2020Let Them Eat Ice Cream, The Pandemic Parade, and Hot Mic Reveals.The tone deaf Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi shows off her freezer full of gourmet ice cream and chocolates as lines outside food banks stretch for miles. New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio has a brainstorm that has even CNN shaking its head, and a Fox News reporter has a hot mic moment waiting for the White House press conference to begin....more30minPlay
April 20, 2020A Gasp of Surprise, Bill Maher and Hell Freezing Over, and a Feverish MistakeThis week former Vice-President Biden gives an audible gasp of surprise when Vt Sen. Bernie Sanders endorses him even though it was a scheduled broadcast. President Obama also words his endorsement of his former V.P. in a very weird way. Bill Maher shocks everyone by agreeing with President Trump on calling Covid-19 a chinese virus and Chris Cuomo bites the hand that feeds him as he recovers from the Coronavirus....more29minPlay
April 13, 2020Body Bags, Snitches Get Rewards, and the Great Face Mask Controversy.....The General Director of the W.H.O. gets into a snit fit with President Trump while the Mayor of Los Angeles offers to reward snitches and a cable news personality accuses the President of having a financial stake in a possible treatment for Covid-19....more25minPlay
April 06, 2020The Trump/CNN War, Hell Just Froze Over , and Gov. Cuomo Says No,No, No, No, No....Hostilities between President Trump and cable news network broke out into out and out war this week during the White House Covid-19 press conferences until a pig flew by the window and CNN's Jim Acosta says he realizes the President gets it. Meanwhile, NY Governor Cuomo says no matter President Trump says he is a better democratic presidential candidate than Joe Biden, he is not running for the White House, ever....more28minPlay
March 30, 2020Social Distancing, Going Stir Crazy and Kibitzing from a BunkerSocial Distancing and cough etiquette have become the words of the day with the President getting his hand slapped on Fox for getting too close to a host and Joe Biden being read the riot act on CNN for not coughing into his arm. New York Governor Cuomo warns people about mental health in this time of social distancing then goes off a cliff. Finally Joe Biden gives a good imitation of a man whose lost his train of thought while criticizing the President from his basement bunker....more28minPlay
March 23, 2020Playing Politics with a PandemicInstead of pulling together, it seems a lot of folks from politicians to the news media are trying to use the Covid-19 virus pandemic as a basis for claims of racism and ineptitude. Is this what you want to see from your national and local leaders at a time of global crisis?...more31minPlay
FAQs about NewsByte:How many episodes does NewsByte have?The podcast currently has 343 episodes available.