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 | November 20, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Friday, NBC’s Today lambasted Republicans for daring to oppose President Obama on the process of accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. Co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Defying the President, the House on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to impose stringent new screening rules.” In the report that followed, correspondent Peter…
Kyle Drennen | November 19, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Teasing an upcoming report that amounted to Obama administration propaganda on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Fighting for family leave....How one mom's courageous battle for more time at home made it all the way to the White House.” In the segment that followed, correspondent Sheinelle Jones declared: “Amber…
Kyle Drennen | November 19, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday, nearly 48 hours after Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that there was a “legitimacy” or a “rationale” behind the January terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, NBC’s Today finally noticed the highly controversial remarks. ABC and CBS continued to ignore Kerry’s offensive comments. During a full…
Kyle Drennen | November 18, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Appearing on Wednesday’s NBC Today, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge repeatedly ripped President Obama’s failing foreign policy against ISIS as co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer sat back without comment. Lauer asked: “From where you're sitting, what are we learning about ISIS based on what we're seeing in Paris?” Ridge…
Kyle Drennen | November 17, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In a tirade on Monday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith dismissed legitimate security concerns in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks as a “collective freak-out” that was potentially “dangerous.” He then proceeded to condemn anyone opposed to bringing thousands of Syrian refugees to the United States as “extreme forces within our own…
Kyle Drennen | November 16, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Following a press conference in which President Obama stubbornly refused to admit any failures in his strategy to fight ISIS, reporters on NBC and ABC were stunned by the commander-in-chief’s dismissive attitude toward the legitimate tough questioning he received. During the press conference, reporters hammered the President over his…
Kyle Drennen | November 16, 2015
Following a press conference in which President Obama stubbornly refused to admit any failures in his strategy to fight ISIS, reporters on NBC and ABC were stunned by the commander-in-chief’s dismissive attitude toward the legitimate tough questioning he received. During the press conference, reporters hammered the President over his failing strategy to combat Islamic terrorism.
Kyle Drennen | November 16, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Following a press conference in which President Obama stubbornly refused to admit any failures in his strategy to fight ISIS, reporters on NBC and ABC were stunned by the commander-in-chief’s dismissive attitude toward the legitimate tough questioning he received.      During an NBC special report immediately following the contentious…
Kyle Drennen | November 16, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In an interview with former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie was incredulous of his criticism of President Obama’s strategy against ISIS: “You wrote in The Washington Post that the President should wage war to defeat ISIS, quote, ‘not merely to harass it.’ That is pretty tough…
Kyle Drennen | November 13, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell actually fact-checked Hillary Clinton’s suspicious tale of trying to join the Marines in 1975: “Those comments are being mocked by Republicans today and they’re getting two Pinocchios from Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler....Why on earth would she go to a Marine recruiter in 1975?...It doesn't…