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 13, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie hyped: “Grand Old Problems. New disarray for the Republican Party. Trump now calling the delegate rules a ‘disgrace.’ The head of the party telling Trump to, quote, ‘Give us all a break.’” Moments later, Guthrie breathlessly repeated: “Our top story is Donald Trump stepping up his…
Kyle Drennen | April 12, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In the sixth segment in less than two weeks promoting HBO’s movie rehash of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, on Tuesday’s NBC Today, weatherman Al Roker spoke to the stars of the film and proclaimed: “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill are back in the headlines thanks to Confirmation. It’s a dramatized version of the…
Kyle Drennen | April 12, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday, all three network morning shows surprisingly hit Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for making a “racially charged joke” during a failed comedy skit at a press dinner. On NBC’s Today, reporter Kristen Welker announced: “The candidate is coming under fire, after she and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made what…
Kyle Drennen | April 11, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Sunday and Monday, all three network shows hailed rocker Bruce Springsteen’s decision to cancel a concert in North Carolina as further evidence of the “firestorm” and “growing backlash” against religious freedom laws recently passed there and in other states. On ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, co-host George Stephanopoulos…
Kyle Drennen | April 11, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In a softball exchange with Anita Hill on Monday to promote the new HBO film commemorating her sexual harassment claims against Clarence Thomas, co-host Savannah Guthrie touted the law professor as a “reluctant witness” during the 1991 hearings that attempted to sink the nomination of the future Supreme Court justice. Guthrie proclaimed: “…
Kyle Drennen | April 8, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In a stunning moment on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer actually pressed liberal actress Kerry Washington – starring in HBO’s new film on the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings – on whether the biopic was really just a piece of “political propaganda.” Lauer started off seeming to lament asking the question: “You know, it seems…
Kyle Drennen | April 8, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. After teeing up Hillary Clinton to dismiss her e-mail scandal as a Republican fantasy at the top of Friday’s NBC Today, during a live town hall with Bernie Sanders in the 8 a.m. ET hour, co-host Matt Lauer invited the socialist senator to blast the GOP: “In a recent interview, you said that the GOP civil war that we're all watching right now…
Kyle Drennen | April 8, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton aired on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teed up the Democratic frontrunner to dismiss the FBI investigation into her e-mail scandal as nothing more than a wild Republican fantasy. Lauer declared: “Let me share some conversations I've had with Republicans....They are clinging to the hope…
Kyle Drennen | April 7, 2016
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During Monday's CBS Early Show, a promo ran for the network's new daytime show, The Talk, based on ABC's The View. The show features former Early Show co-host Julie Chen and five other well-known women chattering about topics of the day. At one point in the ad, fellow host and actress Leah Remini declares of Chen: "Julie, very smart. Makes…