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.

Acosta: Deal to Reopen Government Is ‘A Bright, Shiny Object’ to Distract from Stone Arrest

Curtis Houck | January 25, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! So after the liberal media berated the Trump administration and blamed them for the shutdown and assigning little to no blame for Democrats refusing to secure the southern border, one of media’s chief instigators suggested that a deal to reopen the government is a distraction from the pre-dawn indictment and arrest of Roger Stone? Well…

CNN on Why They Have Video of Roger Stone’s Arrest: We Had a Hunch It’d Happen

Curtis Houck | January 25, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Americans awoke Friday morning to find that, as expected, Trump associate and InfoWars fan Roger Stone been arrested by the FBI at his Ft. Lauderdale, Florida home on seven counts related to the Trump-Russia probe. But what made this long-expected arrest surprsing? Well, somehow CNN had a camera and producer on scene for the arrest,…

‘Hardball’: Criticism of Ocasio-Cortez Is Racist! Latinos Are Trump’s ‘Whipping Boy’

Curtis Houck | January 24, 2019

Check out the link to the full post soon from NewsBusters!

Matthews, Guest Insinuate There Will Be a Terror Attack If Shutdown Doesn’t End Soon

Curtis Houck | January 24, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Furthering a growing media narrative regarding the government shutdown, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) openly suggested on Wednesday (whereas other media types have insinuated it) that it could take a terror attack on America for Congress and President Trump to reopen the federal…

MRC’s Bozell: ‘Astonishing’ the Media Ignore the Facts of Covington Kids

Curtis Houck | January 23, 2019

Check out the link to the NB Staff post here at NewsBusters!

Spicer Defends Lack of WH Briefings, Blasts 'YouTube Stars' Running a 'Circus'

Curtis Houck | January 23, 2019

Check out the link to Randy Hall's post here at NewsBusters!

Matthews Wonders If ‘Trump Cares About’ Stopping ‘Drugs’ at the Southern Border

Curtis Houck | January 22, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Well, that’s a new one. During Tuesday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews wondered to newly-minted MSNBC political analyst and former Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill if President Trump truly “cares about” stopping the flow of illegal drugs from the U.S.-Mexico border, surmising that he doesn’t care about putting a halt to drugs that are…

CNN Shrugs at Security Threats to Covington Kids, Defends Embarrassing Press Coverage

Curtis Houck | January 22, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Tuesday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom dedicated a full segment to the shameful security threats to Covington Catholic High School, its students, and their families. However, it largely brushed off this horrible reality by focusing on a “poignant exchange” between a Native American and Trump supporter outside the Covington Diocese as well as…

Shameful: MSNBC Panelists Place Covington Students Alongside Neo-Nazis, Segregationsists

Curtis Houck | January 21, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Sunday’s Kasie DC, the MSNBC panelists did their best to have it both ways when it came to the liberal media-fueled controversy involving the Covington High School students. Over the course of their discussion, they insisted that the story symbolized the need to be careful when jumping to conclusions while plowing ahead by placing the…

CNN Blows Gasket Over Trump’s ‘Inflammatory,’ ‘Scare-Mongering’ Speech Offering to Compromise

Curtis Houck | January 19, 2019

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! CNN Newsroom offered a predictable reaction to President Trump’s Saturday afternoon remarks that offered a compromise to Democrats on immigration and government shutdown, blasting Trump’s speech as “inflammatory” filled with “misinformation and scare-mongering tactics” trying to still make “Trump’s little racist wall” happen. In other…