Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

CurtisHouck

Curtis Houck currently serves as the Managing Editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst of the network evening newscasts, primetime cable shows, and late-night comedy programs. From January 2016 to April 2016, he also acted as the Sunday news analyst for NewsBusters.

In the eight years that he's been with NewsBusters, his work has been featured on various Fox News Channel programs and outlets such as The Blaze, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Drudge Report, The Federalist, FoxNews.com, Los Angeles Times, The Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and The Wrap. He’s also made over 200 television appearances on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, One America News Network, America's Voice, Cheddar, Fox 5 D.C., NRA-TV, and over 700 radio appearances from coast to coast on both local and syndicated programs. His articles and tweets have been shared by conservative leaders such as Dan Bongino, Erick Erickson, Greg Gutfeld, Mark Levin, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller, Dave Rubin, Ryan Saavedra, and Ben Shapiro.

He returned full-time to the MRC after serving in summer 2013 as an intern with CNS News. Curtis is a 2014 graduate of Penn State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science. He also had the pleasure of interning with The Heritage Foundation in fall 2013. A proud native of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, Curtis is also an Eagle Scout and lives in Vienna, Virginia.

Not Journalism: CNN’s Blitzer Plays Rhetoric Footsie with Dems Nadler, Schiff

Curtis Houck | April 2, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! As my colleague Bill D’Agostino outlined last month, CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer is not so much a home for news, analysis, and substantive interviews as it is a green room for Democratic members of Congress to pontificate without little or no pushback from Blitzer. Tuesday’s show provided another illustration of that sad…

Gutfeld WRECKS Liberal Media ‘Jack***es’ ‘Crushed’ by Mueller Finding No Collusion

Curtis Houck | April 1, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Doing the comedy that NBC’s Saturday Night Live largely retired from doing at least a decade ago, Fox News Channel’s Greg Gutfeld offered a tour de force to open his Saturday eponymous show in the form of a monologue against the liberal media “jackasses” “crushed” by the Mueller report’s conclusion that there was no Trump-Russia…

Gutfeld SAVAGES 'Crazy Aunt' Rachel Maddow for Her Collusion Delusion

Curtis Houck | April 1, 2019

‘Adam Schiff’s Finest Moment’; Matthews Hails Schiff Still Clamoring for Trump-Russia Collusion

Curtis Houck | March 28, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters. NewsBusters has documented how, since Friday night, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews has become a 9/11 truther of sorts when it comes to hold out hope for evidence proving Trump-Russia collusion. The nonsense continued into Thursday’s show in which Matthews wondered if Trump “did...or didn’t he play ball with Vladimir Putin.”…

Watch Mary Katherine Ham Trigger CNN Panelists, Viewers on Mueller’s Collusion Findings

Curtis Houck | March 28, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Let the record show that this post comes with an explicit trigger warning for those who belong to the unofficial Adam Schiff and Chris Cuomo School of Thought that the President, his campaign, and supporters still colluded with Russia. During Thursday’s The Lead, CNN political commentator Mary Katherine Ham deflated more than a few…

ICYMI: Federalist’s Sean Davis Throws the Liberal Media Through a Buzzsaw on Mueller

Curtis Houck | March 27, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! For those who either didn’t watch Tuesday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight or want to relive it, The Federalist’s Sean Davis made a rare TV appearance and absolutely lambasted the liberal media for their years-long narrative that the President and his team colluded with Russians, calling this falsehood “probably the biggest, most consequential…

Crazy Train: ‘Hardball’ Panel Offers Conspiracies on Mueller Report, Trump as a Dictator

Curtis Houck | March 26, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Tuesday’s Hardball saw an opening panel led by host Chris Matthews that showed the desperation of the liberal media following Attorney General Bill Barr’s Sunday letter on the main conclusions of the Mueller report. In roughly 15 minutes, they peddling conspiracy theories that this rollout was conceived of sometime ago, that Barr was…

Stelter Spends Day Getting Owned After Backing Jussie Smollett; ‘Were You There That Night?’

Curtis Houck | March 26, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Talk about an awful, no good, very bad day for CNN’s Reliable Sources host and walking Twitter ratio Brian Stelter. On Tuesday, Stelter peddled the arguments in favor of Jussie Smollett during two CNN shows, suggested Smollett will now go down as “the victim” in all this. And to make matters worse, Stelter took to Twitter and got…

‘The Russians Have Clearly Won’; MSNBC Melts Down Mueller Chose to ‘Abdicate’ Responsibility

Curtis Houck | March 25, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! As NewsBusters illustrated all day on Sunday, MSNBC’s nonsense was shooting out into the ether like water from a fire hose During the 6:00 p.m. Eastern hour, so-called experts offered hot takes such as “the Russians have clearly won” and “Mueller basically seem to abdicate or punt on” the obstruction portion of the investigation. And…

CNN Responds to Geragos Being Named Avenatti’s Co-Conspirator; ‘No Longer’ an Analyst

Curtis Houck | March 25, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! At the end of her two-hour-long CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin finally admitted that she had “an update for you on the breaking news we brought you at the top of the show” because “CNN has learned that attorney Mark Geragos — he’s the unnamed co-conspirator in the criminal complaint against Michael Avenatti.” She stated in the 45-…