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 | February 15, 2021
If you’re single or your Valentine’s Day plans were foiled by an incompetent, authoritative governor who imposed nonsensical and unscientifically based lockdowns and you found yourself at home watching CNN on Sunday, then you likely witnessed Brian Stelter’s extremely obnoxious interview with Representative Sara Jacobs (D-CA). Luckily for you, Valentine’s Day falls on a Monday next year. The…
Donovan Newkirk | February 12, 2021
If you predominantly get your news from CNN or MSNBC, then you’re probably unware of the fact that, on Wednesday, Instagram removed the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. under the pretense of purportedly spreading misinformation regarding COVID-19 and its expeditiously developed vaccinations. In a statement, Facebook said “We removed [Kennedy’s] account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims…
Donovan Newkirk | February 9, 2021
On Monday evening, MSNBC’s fearmongering and race-baiting host Joy Reid conducted a lengthy and very awkward interview at the end of her show. The Reid Out host invited two Asian guests on to discuss how President Trump is single-handedly responsible for the purported proliferation of “racist attacks” against Asian Americans in the past year. If you’re a race-obsessed freak like Reid who insists…
Donovan Newkirk | February 8, 2021
While tens of millions of Americans prepared or ordered food for Sunday’s fiftieth Super Bowl, Al Sharpton, host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, conducted a race-baiting, impeachment-related interview. Sharpton invited Black Lives Matter activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham and MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan on to discuss the implications of the upcoming impeachment trial of former President…
Donovan Newkirk | February 5, 2021
On Thursday evening, MSNBC’s Joy Reid proudly conducted Pete Buttigieg’s first televised interview since being confirmed and sworn in as the new Secretary of Transportation. Before asking him a series of extremely vague, softball questions, The ReidOut host gushed over how great Buttigieg is for the cabinet position. The race-obsessed host gushed over the fact that the first black, female vice…
Donovan Newkirk | February 3, 2021
On Tuesday evening, MSNBC’s Democratic propagandist Joy Reid interviewed Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) to get Waters’ reaction to her colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) recent Instagram live recounting of the Capitol riot on January 6. Of course, before The ReidOut host asked her softball question about how watching Ocasio-Cortez dramatically delineate her experience made Waters “…
Donovan Newkirk | February 2, 2021
On Monday night, Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut fully acknowledged her pettiness, but failed to acknowledge her leftist bias. Reid implored that Democrats abandon their post-Trump calls for unification and bipartisanship. Reid insisted that her guest, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), forgo any further attempts at garnering Republican support for the Biden administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion…
Donovan Newkirk | February 1, 2021
On Saturday, America's most prodigious race-baiting reverend and host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, Al Sharpton, emphatically decried the Senate's use of the filibuster as racist and urged his viewers to contact their senators in order to demand its permanent elimination. During the four-minute "Rise Up" segment, Sharpton ripped former Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell and other Republicans…
Donovan Newkirk | January 29, 2021
During the second hour of Thursday's CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon and his race-baiting buddy, The New York Times columnist, Charles Blow fervently ripped on the United States for being a nation imbued with “white supremacy.” According to Lemon and Blow, the ideology of white superiority isn’t actually a fleeting idea that fewer and fewer people believe as the United States ages—as study after…
Donovan Newkirk | January 28, 2021
Wednesday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spent her entire opening monologue gushing over the frequency and style of the Biden administration’s array of press briefings. Throughout the obnoxious twenty-minute propaganda segment, Maddow incessantly bashed the Trump administration for essentially not doing enough of journalists’ work for them. Alluding to the fact that the Biden administration was…