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 | February 24, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday, MSNBC followed CNN's lead in letting a silly Applebee's commercial play while having a split screen of live footage of the deadly Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Kyle Drennen | February 23, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday, NBC’s Today show brought on former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and heap praise on President Biden’s failed foreign policy. Given McFaul’s diplomatic tenure in Moscow occurred during the Obama administration and ended just prior to Vladimir Putin’s initial 2014 invasion of…
Kyle Drennen | February 22, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. After desperately trying to blame Donald Trump for the current crisis in Ukraine – happening over a year into Joe Biden’s presidency – on her MSNBC show early Tuesday afternoon, anchor Andrea Mitchell couldn’t handle it when former National Security Adviser John Bolton told her that it was Biden’s foreign policy that had “failed.”
Kyle Drennen | February 22, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On MSNBC’s MTP Daily Monday afternoon, fill-in anchor Garrett Haake feared that Russia’s expected invasion of Ukraine “has thrown a big wrench in the political plans for Democrats here at home.” While complaining that the international crisis was interfering with Biden administration attempts to “reset their messaging heading into the midterms…
Kyle Drennen | February 21, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Monday, President Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan appeared on all three network morning shows to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. However, while NBC and CBS actually pressed the White House official on whether the administration’s response to Russian aggression was strong enough, ABC’s Good Morning America took the…
Kyle Drennen | February 17, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and Thursday’s NBC Today show, hosts fretted over mask mandates being lifted across the country as COVID numbers sharply decline. Jittery anchors feared that the easing of pandemic restrictions “triggers” some people and even suggested they themselves might “wear a mask forever now” in certain settings, like public…
Kyle Drennen | February 17, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday, NBC’s Today show finally noticed the bombshell development from Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign spied on Donald Trump, both as a candidate and as president. However, the Democratic Party shills at the network immediately turned to Hillary Clinton and attorneys for her former…
Kyle Drennen | February 16, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Appearing on FNC’s Special Report With Bret Baier Tuesday evening, Real Clear Politics President Tom Bevan slammed the leftist media for an “absolutely glaring” double standard when it came to the stunning non-coverage of the Durham investigation findings versus how the same press spent years “running with far less” when it came to the phony…
Kyle Drennen | February 15, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On his MSNBC show Tuesday afternoon, MTP Daily host Chuck Todd acknowledged the bombshell news from the John Durham investigation but promptly attempted to dismiss evidence of the Hillary Clinton campaign spying on Donald Trump as just something being promoted by “the right-wing echo chamber.” He later sneered: “Sometimes facts get in the way…
Kyle Drennen | February 15, 2022
Read the full article on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Monday evening's Special Report With Bret Baier, Fox News analysts Howard Kurtz and Brit Hume slammed the leftist media for ignoring the latest bombshell in the John Durham investigation. Hume observed that "the media’s reaction to it is shades of the Hunter Biden laptop story" and predicted: "The national media is going to have egg all…