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.

What a Bitter, Sad Man: CNN’s Jim Acosta Complains Sanders Didn’t Call on Him at WH Briefing

Curtis Houck | March 5, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! As we’ve learned beginning with the 2016 election, CNN’s Jim Acosta has emerged as perhaps the most melodramatic and self-centered liberal journalists to ever grace the airwaves. Monday’s 20-minute White House press briefing saw a new installment as he bewailed Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders not calling on him. Sanders ended the…

Fake News: Comedy Central’s Klepper Complains Media Hasn’t Covered Gun Control Views Enough

Curtis Houck | March 5, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Doubling as a weekly liberal media pep talk, CNN’s Reliable Sources and host Brian Stelter featured ludicrous spin from liberal Comedy Central host Jordan Klepper on gun control, complaining that the gun control viewpoint has been insufficiently covered in the media, and the NRA falsely has created a “narrative” that their opponents want…

CNN’s Lemon Channels Rather, Wolff By Defending His Fox News Lies, Arguing Its Spirit Was True

Curtis Houck | March 2, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! CNN Tonight host Don Lemon trapped himself in a lie this week, falsely claiming that the Fox News Channel (or “Trump TV” in his mind) had never covered the White House resignation of Hope Hicks. He offered “apologies for that” on Thursday but it was anything but that as he channeled Dan Rather and Michael Wolff in arguing that the spirit…

Disrespectful Matthews Compares Parkland Students to American Troops Winning World War I

Curtis Houck | February 28, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! A day after suggesting that defying the NRA could leave politicians assassinated like Anwar Sadat or Yitzhak Rabin, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews argued on Wednesday night that Parkland gun control student activists are just like American troops turning the tide in World War I. This insult to the memory of the “Doughboys” came…

WashPost Reporter Insinuates Russian Trolls Caused Hillary to Lose the Election, Win It for Trump

Curtis Houck | February 28, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Whenever someone from the liberal media footnotes in a Trump-Russia story that there’s no evidence that votes were changed, remember segments like this one from Tuesday’s Hardball that showed why, deep down, they’re still convinced that Russians were why Hillary Clinton lost the election. During the Hardball Roundtable block on MSNBC,…

Disgusting: Matthews Compares Defying the NRA to Assassinated Leaders Rabin, Sadat

Curtis Houck | February 27, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Tuesday’s Hardball, lefty MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews didn’t just refuse to correct Democratic Governor Jay Inslee (Wash.) on his absurd claim that the NRA wants first graders to be armed with guns. Not only that, but he debased the millions of National Rifle Association (NRA) members and civil discourse by comparing anyone who…

Acosta Pushes Fear ‘Parents Are Worried’ Arming Teachers Will Make Schools the New ‘Wild West’

Curtis Houck | February 26, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! CNN’s Jim Acosta made a brief appearance during Monday’s White House press briefing, questioning Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about fears arming teachers would make schools the new “Wild West” and President Trump’s comments about how he would have stormed Stoneman Douglas High School to save lives. “There are a lot of parents…

Pence Excoriates Liberal Media ‘Fawning Over’ North Korean Family at the Olympics

Curtis Houck | February 22, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here at NewsBusters. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Addressing a boisterous and energized crowd on Thursday morning at CPAC, Vice President Mike Pence revisited the Trump administration’s successes in 2018 and addressed head-on the liberal media’s love affair during the Winter Olympics with the murderous North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong, a member of the regime’s “evil family…

Insanity: CNN Town Hall Student Questions Loesch’s Motherhood, Hecklers Shout ‘Murderer’

Curtis Houck | February 21, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here over at NewsBusters! The second portion of CNN’s town hall/mob promoting gun control on Wednesday night featured Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch and, on cue, it was brutally hostile towards Loesch. Along with repeatedly being heckled by students and other attendees as a “murderer,” Stoneman Douglas student Emma Gonzalez…

Activist CNN Anchor Baldwin Harasses FL GOP Rep. for Not Supporting Gun Grab

Curtis Houck | February 21, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters. Afternoon CNN Newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin has gained a reputation of being a liberal journalist, but Wednesday saw Baldwin take her activism to another level by brutally harassing Florida Republican State Representative Matt Caldwell for not being willing to “consider” an assault weapons ban. Baldwin had an assist from Democratic…