Kyle Drennen
NewsBusters Associate Editor
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Kyle Drennen is the Media Research Center's Associate Editor of NewsBusters and previously served as the MRC's Senior News Analyst.

His media analysis has been cited by nationally syndicated radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, as well as media outlets including Fox News, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.com, The Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Politico, National Review, among others.  

Kyle joined the MRC in 2007 after graduating from Providence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science. Prior to that, he interned at the MRC in the summer of 2005. He lives in Northern Virginia and can be contacted via email at kdrennen@mrc.org.

Kyle Drennen | July 12, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King kept up her staunch defense of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the Dallas shooting. After interviewing a family that attended the protest which preceded the sniper attack on police, King proclaimed: “The thing they wanted to stress most is that Black Lives Matter didn't have…
Kyle Drennen | July 12, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Despite highlighting the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll on Tuesday’s Today, showing Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump shrinking, the network morning show skipped the most damaging findings for the Democratic candidate. According the survey, 82% of voters thought it was inappropriate for Clinton to use a private e-mail server and 56…
Kyle Drennen | July 11, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Monday, the hosts of CBS This Morning, along with Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson, proceeded to defend the Black Lives Matter movement in wake of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani slamming the left-wing group as “inherently racist.” The segment began with a clip of Giuliani telling Dickerson on Sunday’s Face the Nation: “…
Kyle Drennen | July 11, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Monday, all three network morning shows were eager to second guess the Dallas Police Department’s decision to use a bomb delivered by robot to kill ambush sniper Micah Johnson and fretted over the militarization of police across the country. At the top of CBS This Morning, with the headline “Questionable Tactics” emblazoned across the…
Kyle Drennen | July 1, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Appearing on NBC’s Today on Friday, Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin offered a laughably naive explanation for Bill Clinton’s controversial meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch: “The most obvious explanation and probably the right one, is Bill Clinton is a really social guy...” He cast Clinton and Lynch as celebrities who just…
Kyle Drennen | June 30, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell dismissed the controversy over Bill Clinton’s private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch as nothing more than a “conspiracy theory” as she rushed to defend Hillary Clinton.   Mitchell lamented even having to discuss story: “Now on top of all of this, as though…
Kyle Drennen | June 30, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. The cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday ripped into the Clintons over Bill Clinton having a private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the midst of the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal.
Kyle Drennen | June 30, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. While credit goes to Thursday’s CBS This Morning for leading the broadcast with the controversy swirling around Bill Clinton having a 30-minute private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch amid the FBI investigation to Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, the hosts of the morning show proceeded to dismiss the suspicious incident as an “…
Kyle Drennen | June 29, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During a report on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning about White House reaction to the terrorist attack in Istanbul, correspondent Margaret Brennan lamented the violence was taking attention away from President Obama’s effort to push his left-wing agenda at an international summit: “...this is the third time in the past year that a major summit is…
Kyle Drennen | June 28, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday, while all three network morning shows covered the newly-released House Benghazi Committee report, the broadcasts also dutifully parroted Democratic talking points attacking the credibility of the findings and concluded: “It does not appear to uncover conclusive evidence of wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton.” At the top of CBS This…