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 | April 19, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Monday, all three network evening newscasts touted liberal protesters flooding into the streets around the Supreme Court to demand that the justices uphold President Obama’s unilateral executive action granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Leading off NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt proclaimed: “Immigration furor: The…
Kyle Drennen | April 19, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During a taped softball interview with Hillary Clinton aired on CBS’s Late Show Monday night, liberal host Stephen Colbert fretted that Republicans would run the Democratic frontrunner through a “meat slicer” if she became president. Sitting down for the friendly chat with Clinton in New York’s Carnegie Deli, Colbert worried: “Why do you…
Kyle Drennen | April 18, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In an interview with Bernie Sanders on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie worried that the Democratic presidential candidate’s criticism of frontrunner Hillary Clinton was similar to Donald Trump’s latest line of attack: “Donald Trump is test driving a new nickname for Hillary Clinton, ‘crooked Hillary.’ Maybe he uses fewer words,…
Kyle Drennen | April 18, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In a report for Monday’s NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales highlighted a new interview with Monica Lewinsky in the The Guardian and used the words of the former White House intern to scold Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for bringing up Bill Clinton’s past sex scandals during the 2016 campaign. Morales declared: “Lewinsky says her…
Kyle Drennen | April 16, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. An exchange on abortion at an MSNBC town hall event with Ted Cruz was prompted by an earlier question from supposed “Republican” voter Sue Fries, who demanded Cruz answer for the “non-inclusion” and “extreme” nature of the GOP: "The GOP has progressively become a party of non-inclusion, especially on social issues, where personal religious…
Kyle Drennen | April 16, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During an MSNBC town hall event with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Thursday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd dismissed the Texas Senator’s condemnation of Planned Parenthood by insisting that scandal surrounding the abortion provider was “made up.”   Cruz observed: “You know, a few months ago, we had this series of videos…
Kyle Drennen | April 15, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Opening her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, host Andrea Mitchell triumphantly proclaimed: “Tough crowd. It's crickets for Ted Cruz in Manhattan but Donald Trump is speaking their language at the big party dinner.” In a report minutes later, she gloated: “Cruz had a terrible night at the Republican black-tie gala here for the state party…
Kyle Drennen | April 15, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, co-host George Stephanopoulos told Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus that the GOP was “breaking apart” and quoted Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to bolster his claim. Stephanopoulos touted how “Democrats are making hay” of the contentious Republican…
Kyle Drennen | April 14, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On her Wednesday night show, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly described a recent meeting with Donald Trump to “clear the air” in wake the Republican frontrunner’s months of public attacks against her. However, appearing at the annual Women in the World forum on April 6, Kelly ripped into her media colleagues for their excessive and skewed coverage…
Kyle Drennen | April 13, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Keeping up the drumbeat against North Carolina’s religious freedom on Wednesday, the three network morning shows seized on Republican Governor Pat McCrory amending the legislation and used the development to further hammer the state. In a news brief for NBC’s Today, fill-in co-host Willie Geist proclaimed: “We’ve got some new developments…