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 | May 11, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. After being pressed by NBC's Late Night host Seth Myers and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd about failing to purchase the domain name CarlyFiorina.org, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina cleverly hit back by buying SethMeyers.org and ChuckTodd.org. On Monday's Today, trying to deflect from the GOP contender outsmarting their…
Kyle Drennen | May 8, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Appearing on Friday's NBC Today to discuss the particularly bad spring allergy season, medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar managed to work a top liberal agenda item into her analysis of the health issue: "It's a terrible allergy season. A couple reasons. One is that we had a really late winter....Another reason is climate change raises…
Kyle Drennen | May 7, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Acting as a Clinton campaign spokesperson on her Thursday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell spun Hillary Clinton's upcoming testimony before a congressional hearing on the Benghazi and State Department e-mail scandals as exactly what the Democratic presidential candidate wanted: "Well, they are, frankly, very confident about that hearing.…
Kyle Drennen | May 7, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday, CBS This Morning offered a scant 26 seconds on a Wall Street Journal story about nearly 1,600 IRS employees having evaded taxes over a ten-year period, with co-host Norah O'Donnell noting: "Workers improperly claimed dependents, repeatedly failed to file timely tax returns, and claimed a tax credit for first-time home buyers…
Kyle Drennen | May 5, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Leading off a report on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for Tuesday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Julianna Goldman proclaimed: "Secretary Clinton has been trying to frame her campaign around issues like immigration reform....But her message has been muddled by a series of recent distractions, including questions about donations…
Kyle Drennen | May 4, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In declaring his presidential candidacy on Monday, Dr. Ben Carson took the liberal media to task: "You know, the media, the press, is the only business in America that is protected by our constitution....It was because our founders envisioned a press that was on the side of the people, not a press that was on the side of the Democrats or the…
Kyle Drennen | May 4, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In an interview with Bill Clinton aired on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Cynthia McFadden pressed him on the scandal swirling around the Clinton Foundation, but she quickly moved on to gush over the "heartwarming stories" of the charity's work in Africa. McFadden, traveling with former president in Africa, began the segment by declaring…
Kyle Drennen | May 1, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Apparently voters can expect to see Rick Harrison of History Channel's Pawn Stars hitting the campaign trail for Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. Appearing on CNBC's Closing Bell on Friday, Harrison told hosts Kelly Evans and Bill Griffeth that in addition to running his Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, he was "working…
Kyle Drennen | April 30, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell cheered Hillary Clinton "carving out her own identity as a candidate" by "breaking ranks with a key part of her husband's legacy – a tough anti-crime bill now blamed for some of the problems dividing communities like Baltimore." Mitchell explained: "Among other reforms, Clinton called…
Kyle Drennen | April 30, 2015
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday, all three network morning shows noted independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders entering the 2016 presidential race as a Democrat. However, NBC's Today left out any mention of the self-described socialist's radical left-wing views. Today co-host Matt Lauer informed viewers: "Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will formerly…