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 | October 5, 2012
Appearing on Friday's NBC Today, left-wing MSNBC host Ed Schultz desperately tried to explain away President Obama's bad debate performance: "I think that there were so many lies coming across that stage, and so many inaccuracies, it was hard for the President to comprehend it and decide which one he wanted to attack first."
Kyle Drennen | October 4, 2012
Picking up where he left off Wednesday night, on Thursday's NBC Today, MSNBC's Chris Matthews continued to whine over President Obama's poor debate performance and ranted that Mitt Romney has "been accused of etch-a-sketch, last night was his greatest achievement. Everything he said within days ago, he's ignored."
Kyle Drennen | October 3, 2012
Appearing on CNBC's Squawk Box on Wednesday, NBC News political director Chuck Todd launched into a rant attacking Rasmussen Reports polling: "We spend a lot more money polling than Scott Rasmussen does. We spend a lot more money on quality control....I hate the idea that [NBC] polling, which is rigorously done, has to get compared to what is, in some cases, you know, slop."
Kyle Drennen | October 3, 2012
In a stunning omission on Wednesday's NBC Today, brief coverage of a 2007 video of Barack Obama completely ignored the then-Senator praising his controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright as a "great leader, not just in Chicago, but all across the country." The NBC morning show adopted a dismissive attitude toward the video, with co-host Savannah Guthrie leading off the broadcast: "Conservatives…
Kyle Drennen | October 1, 2012
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, BBC America Washington correspondent Katty Kay dismissed the electoral impact of the Obama administration's mishandling of the crisis in the Middle East: "I'm not sure that who said what, when, and when the intelligence came out...I'm not sure that that's going to be a huge issue for voters in the course of this election."
Kyle Drennen | October 1, 2012
At the top of Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory announced Mitt Romney was backed "against the wall" in the presidential race and proceeded to ask both New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Obama advisor David Plouffe: "Is the race over?"
Kyle Drennen | September 28, 2012
MRC President Brent Bozell played for the audience highlights of the worst bias over the years from Dan Rather, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric and Brian Williams and then  called to the stage all the presenters and acceptors so they could judge, based on the audience’s jeering, which of the four deserved the “Worst Reporter in the History of Man” rebuke. Katie Couric was the clear choice.At the…
Kyle Drennen | September 28, 2012
During the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala on September 27, 2012, the MRC honors the late Andrew Breitbart with the sixth annual “William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.” Cal Thomas, who earned the honor in 2011, presents the award which is accepted by Breitbart’s father-in-law, Orson Bean.
Kyle Drennen | September 28, 2012
Before dinner, at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, Chris Plante introduces the invocation by Father Terence Henry and pledge of allegiance led by Marines in Afghanistan.
Kyle Drennen | September 28, 2012
On Friday's NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw demonstrated the blatant media effort to ignore Obama administration failures surrounding the consulate attack in Libya: "Romney turned out to give the President air cover. There are serious questions about what happened in Libya and the absence of security and what is our Middle East policy, but Romney's missteps really have given the…