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.

Blitzer Viciously Maims Guest Over Memo; It’s Your Fault ‘Putin Has Succeeded’ [Pt. 3]

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! In a sign of just how upset the liberal media are about Friday’s release of the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer decided to become Jim Acosta by viciously interrupting and attacking Congressman Chris Stewart (Utah) and his fellow Republicans. A few minutes after former Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harmon (Calif…

Blitzer Viciously Maims Guest Over Memo; It’s GOP's Fault ‘Putin Has Succeeded’ [Pt. 2]

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! In a sign of just how upset the liberal media are about Friday’s release of the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer decided to become Jim Acosta by viciously interrupting and attacking Congressman Chris Stewart (Utah) and his fellow Republicans. After further bickering, Blitzer took one of many cheap shots , painting…

Blitzer Viciously Maims Guest Over Memo; It’s GOP's Fault ‘Putin Has Succeeded’ [Pt. 1]

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! In a sign of just how upset the liberal media are about Friday’s release of the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer decided to become Jim Acosta by viciously interrupting and attacking Congressman Chris Stewart (Utah) and his fellow Republicans. Blitzer was hostile from the start, berating Stewart for not releasing…

Hysteria on CNN Set: Dismisses Dossier Concerns in Memo, Touts Use of Biased Sources

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! It was as if an asteroid was on its way to CNN’s D.C. bureau on Friday when the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo was released as CNN analysts and reporters did everything in their power to dismiss the memo and defend Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger concocted perhaps the biggest pretzel of…

PANIC: CNN’s Chalian Frets Memo Distracts from Russia’s ‘Attack on Our Democracy’

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! Seconds before the official release of the highly anticipated House Intelligence Committee memo on abuses of power within the FBI, CNN political director David Chalian was furious that it was distracting from Russia’s “attack on our democracy” and heaped praise on Republican Senator John McCain (Ariz.) for a statement condemning the memo.

‘Hardball’ Goes DEFCON-1 Over Memo Causing ‘Constitutional Crisis’; GOP Putting ‘Party Over Principle’

Curtis Houck | February 1, 2018

Check out the full post here over at NewsBusters! In another sign of tension ahead of the highly-anticipated intelligence memo’s release, Thursday’s Hardball was in DEFCON-1 territory with MSNBC host Chris Matthews and his A-Block guests melting down over the “all-out war” that could lead to a “constitutional crisis.” Matthews began with a grim mood, almost as if he were reading a script…

MRC’s Bozell: Liberal Media ‘Choose to Echo’ Dems on SOTU Because ‘They Hate Him’

Curtis Houck | February 1, 2018

Check out the full NB Staff post here from NewsBusters! Following up his statement blasting the liberal media’s reaction to the State of the Union, MRC President Brent Bozell told the Fox Business Network’s Liz MacDonald on Thursday night that President Trump “hit three home runs” talking about America in the mold of Ronald Reagan while Democrats and the media condemned it because “they hate”…

AFL-CIO’s Trumka: People Will Die Because of Trump Slashing Red Tape

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! On the back end of Wednesday's Hardball, host Chris Matthews spoke to AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka and lobbed a softball fretting over whether Trump has made “it more dangerous to work in America” due to slashing government regulations. Trumka said “[t]here’s no question” it’s more dangerous because we already “lose 150 workers every single…

NYT’s Goldberg Smears North Korean Defector Over His Christian Faith

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Liberal New York Timescolumnist Michelle Goldberg stooped to a new low by attacking the emotional recognition of North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho at Tuesday’s State of the Union due to his Christian faith and supposedly being used as a prop to advocate for war with North Korea.

Matthews Compares Devin Nunes, Memo to Joseph McCarthy Searching for Communists

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Hardball host Chris Matthews has quite a reputation of engaging in juvenile behavior and so one of his top insults is to label someone Joseph McCarthy or guilty of engaging in McCarthyism. Speaking to USA Today's Page, Matthews screeched about Nunes and the FBI memo being similar to the Army-McCarthy hearings with Mueller “prosecuting the…