Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

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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.

Lacking Self-Awareness, CNN Admits North Korea Manipulated ‘World Attention’ at the Olympics

Curtis Houck | February 13, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! It’s often said at sites like this one, but sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up. On the Tuesday edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer and correspondent Brian Todd assessed whether the North Korean delegation at the Winter Olympics games “manipulate[d] world public opinion” without mention of their own network’s role…

ABC Knocks Warmbier’s Father as a ‘Perceived American Jab’ at ‘Korean Peace

Curtis Houck | February 11, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewBusters! To put it mildly, Saturday marked an unbelievably bad and downright disgraceful day for the liberal media in which they sided with North Korean in promoting their propaganda push at the Pyeongchang Olympics. ABC’s World News Tonight did its part by smearing the memory of the late Otto Warmbier, who was brutally tortured and left in a…

Hypocrisy: Matthews Rebuffs Trump-O.J. Simpson Comparison, Used It Himself Last Year

Curtis Houck | February 8, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here over at NewsBusters! On Thursday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews took issue with guest and former Obama Justice Department official Neal Katyal when he compared President Trump’s behavior during the Russia probe to O.J. Simpson trying to discredit the LAPD during his murder. Now, why mention this? While Matthews quibbling with a point raised by a guest…

First Non-Rob Porter Question at WH Briefing? Omarosa on CBS’s ‘Big Brother’

Curtis Houck | February 8, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here over at NewsBusters! During Thursday’s tumultuous White House press briefing, the number one (and most important) topic was the resignation of White House staff secretary Rob Porter following serious allegations of spousal abuse and the Trump administration’s confounding response. Other topics included government funding, North Korea, and the Olympic…

Matthews Disparages Johnson, Nunes as ‘Munchkins’ Colluding with WH on Memos, Texts

Curtis Houck | February 7, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here over at NewsBusters! In the A-Block of Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews lost his cool in denouncing Republicans like Congressman Devin Nunes (Calif.) and Senator Ron Johnson (Wisc.) as part of a “group of munchkins” being “pushed around and led around” by their staffs and the White House in publishing the controversial intelligence memos…

MSNBC’s O’Donnell Trashes Kelly as ‘Worst’ Chief of Staff Ever, ‘Full of Hatred’ Like Trump

Curtis Houck | February 7, 2018

Check out the link to the full-post here over at NewsBusters! Reacting late Tuesday to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s comments about illegal immigrants and the DACA program, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell lashed out at Kelly as “the worst White House chief of staff in history” and someone who’s undoubtedly “full of hatred” like President Trump. Upon hearing the…

CNN’s Karem Melts Down, Claims Trump WH Think ‘Every Immigrant in this Country’ Is ‘A Killer’

Curtis Houck | February 6, 2018

Check out a link to the full post here over at NewsBusters. CNN political analyst, Playboy correspondent, and Sentinel Newspapers editor Brian Karem experienced another delusional meltdown on CNN Tuesday afternoon, falsely claiming that President Trump has used MS-13 to label “every immigrant in this country” as “killer and thug and a thief.” Karem was speaking to sympathetic CNN Newsroom…

MRC’s Noyes Exposes Liberal Media’s Double Standard on Trump Stock Market Coverage

Curtis Houck | February 5, 2018

Check out the full NB Staff post here over at NewsBusters. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average taking another nosedive on Monday, the MRC’s Rich Noyes joined Neil Cavuto’s eponymous Fox Business Network program to discuss the findings of a study by MRC Business’s Julia Seymour that found a massive double standard from the major broadcast networks on stock market increases vs. tumbles. Cavuto…

NBC Loses It: Memo ‘First Leaked to Conservative Media’ Could Cause a ‘Constitution Crisis’

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! Following an exhausting day of the liberal media being in a constant state of panic after the release of the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo, Friday’s NBC Nightly News pulled its weight in not emphasizing the memo’s contents but how the “politically-charged” “partisan grenade” has some claiming that this will trigger “a…

Bernstein on Memo: We Have ‘Not Seen Such Dark Days’ in America, Leaving Us ‘At a Crossroads’

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! Always prone to use ostentatious rhetoric, CNN contributor Carl Bernstein unloaded Friday afternoon on the release of the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo, telling Jake Tapper that “we may well have not seen such dark days for American democracy and its institutions” to the point that we are “at a crossroads” because of the “demagogic…