Donovan Newkirk
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Donovan Newkirk is an intern for NewsBusters. Donovan graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in political science in May of 2020. He was The College Fix's Fall 2020 Journalism Fellow. Donovan has interned with RealClearPolitics. Donovan has written for RealClearEducationThe College FixBadger Institute, and the University at Buffalo's independent student newspaper, The Spectrum.

Donovan Newkirk | March 5, 2021
On Friday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar and her Republican-loathing colleague, Brian Stelter, took turns bashing their conservative competitor, Fox News Channel. Ostensibly forgetting that they’re supposed to be objective journalists, the two left-wing hosts condemned Fox executives and hosts for pledging to actually practice adversarial journalism. Keilar began the awkward, Fox-obsessed segment by…
Donovan Newkirk | March 4, 2021
On Wednesday (before inexorably bashing Senator Joe Manchin), MSNBC’s police-loathing Joy Reid uttered one of the most illogical claims ever made on live television. During a segment, which was supposed to be focused on the purported increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans, Reid contended that a greater police presence causes more violence and more crime. To discuss the alleged increase…
Donovan Newkirk | March 4, 2021
On Tuesday and Wednesday evening, MSNBC’s Joy Reid took to the airwaves to perform her typical race-baiting and ad hominem attacks on those who disagree with her. Displeased by Neera Tanden’s decision to withdraw from consideration for the director of the Office of Management and Budget as her nomination stalled, The ReidOut host fervently denounced Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Republicans for …
Donovan Newkirk | March 2, 2021
On Monday evening, MSNBC’s Joy Reid allotted a significant amount of time on her show The ReidOut to bash Republicans for their reluctance to increase both the national debt and the federal minimum wage. Reid invited one of the most progressive members of the House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), on to discuss potential “workarounds” that the Democratic Party could utilize in order to…
Donovan Newkirk | March 2, 2021
On Monday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and his wife/co-host Mika Brzezinski spent much of Morning Joe deriding both speakers and attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Scarborough, Brzezinski, and their various guests alternated taking jabs at conservatives and CPAC as a whole. Scarborough played several clips of former President Trump speaking at the conference, but asked his…
Donovan Newkirk | February 26, 2021
On Thursday, CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo dedicated over seven minutes of his eponymous show, Cuomo Prime Time, championing the House’s newly passed Equality Act. Cuomo invited Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman, a Democrat, on to discuss the importance of the Equality Act and to delineate her recent drama-filled feud with her colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). During the entire…
Donovan Newkirk | February 19, 2021
Shortly before a commercial break during the latter portion of The ReidOut on Thursday evening, host Joy Reid teased her viewers that she had “exclusive” news for them about Democrats potentially acquiring another Senate seat in 2022. Subsequent to the break, Reid conducted a softball interview with Pennsylvania State Representative Malcom Kenyatta in which she fawned over his announcement of his…
Donovan Newkirk | February 19, 2021
On Thursday morning, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle dedicated an entire segment of her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show to blaming Republicans for the suffering of millions of Texans who have been afflicted by recent freezing temperatures and snow storms.During her opening, Ruhle — who is known for being a Democratic sympathizer — decried Republican elected officials for “spending their time getting…
Donovan Newkirk | February 17, 2021
On Wednesday afternoon, the wife of conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh announced that his advanced-stage lung cancer had taken his life. Within mere minutes of the news, Limbaugh was trending number one on Twitter. Media outlets on both the left and the right informed their respective audiences of the breaking news. Unfortunately, several left-wing media outlets felt that they couldn’t…
Donovan Newkirk | February 16, 2021
On Monday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spent an entire segment of The Rachel Maddow Show promulgating the need to replace Republicans with progressive, far-left Democrats. Maddow invited on Amanda Litman, a co-founder and executive director of Run For Something, to discuss the importance of challenging and ousting any Trump-supporting conservative. Maddow prefaced the segment and introduced…