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.

Sad! CNN’s Amanpour Is Not Happy Trump Could Withdraw U.S. from Iran Nuclear Deal

Curtis Houck | October 13, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Friday afternoon, CNN didn’t take too well to President Trump’s speech decertifying the Iran nuclear deal, but it was CNN International host Christiane Amanpour who was the hardest hit, bemoaning the President correctly asserting Iran as evil and arguing that all this will make Israel and the U.S. far less safe. “Clearly, it was a very…

Tucker Carlson, Joe Concha Excoriate NBC’s Weinstein Cover-Up; ‘NBC Is Lying’

Curtis Houck | October 13, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Leading off Thursday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the eponymous FNC host and The Hill’s Joe Concha provided a proverbial beatdown to NBC News for “lying” in their cover-up and reluctance to cover the Harvey Weinstein allegations of sexual misconduct. The focus has largely (and appropriately) remained on the victims, but Carlson noted that it’s…

Despicable: Lyin’ Brian Condemns U.S. Using Nukes ‘In Anger,’ Being ‘Arbiter’ of Who Has Them

Curtis Houck | October 12, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s The 11th Hour and serial liar Brian Williams debased himself once again, showing a tinge of anti-Americanism on Wednesday by declaring that the U.S. was “the only nation on Earth to have set off nuclear weapons in anger” and deemed itself to be “the arbiter of who else gets to have them on the planet.” Williams was wrapping up the late…

Gen. Kelly Tells Media to Get ‘Better Sources’; ‘Astounding to Me How Much Is Misreported’

Curtis Houck | October 12, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Thursday’s White House press briefing was conducted by White House Chief of Staff and Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly (Ret.), who thoroughly enjoyed having the liberal media shouting questions his direction and answering them at all. Most importantly, Kelly responded to a question from the Fox Business Network’s Blake Burman about frustrations…

Awkward: Lauer Insists to Farrow He Worked on Weinstein Bombshell as an NBC Venture

Curtis Houck | October 11, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Amidst the NBC News controversy of declining to support contributor Ronan Farrow’s bombshell story on Harvey Weinstein, NBC’s Today co-host Matt Lauer praised Farrow on Wednesday for working on it at NBC but failing to disclose the network’s refusal to publish it (hence why it went to The New Yorker). Lauer welcomed Farrow on as “a…

Watch Ronan Farrow Admit NBC News Brushed Aside His Harvey Weinstein Investigation

Curtis Houck | October 10, 2017

Matthews, Guest Argue WH Tension Warrants ‘Impeachment’; Blast GOP’s ‘Cowardice’

Curtis Houck | October 10, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg dredged up the drumbeat of presidential impeachment on Tuesday night, declaring that the contents of a Washington Post about tension within the Trump White House warrants “near-edge impeachment territory” if it weren’t for the “unbelievable cowardice” by…

CNN Weinstein Panel Explodes When Carpenter Invokes Clinton Sex Scandals, Cover-Ups

Curtis Houck | October 10, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Showing off the liberal media’s willful blindness concerning the Clintons, Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin featured CNN political commentator and former Ted Cruz staffer Amanda Carpenter being shouted down in a Harvey Weinstein segment for invoking the sexual misdeeds by Bill Clinton and enabling by Hillary Clinton. Baldwin turned…

CNN’s Bash Unloads on Obamas on Weinstein Donations, Silence: ‘Where Are the Obamas?’

Curtis Houck | October 10, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday, a number of CNN figures swiftly condemned former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama for their silence thus far on the rape and sexual assault allegations against donor, friend, and filmmaker Harvey Weinstein. Among the CNNers were chief political correspondent Dana Bash, who slammed the Obamas during CNN’s…

CNN’s Karem: Trump's Rhetoric Has Reduced His Base to David Duke, Nazis, White Supremacists

Curtis Houck | October 9, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday’s Wolf, Sentinel Newspapers executive editor and CNN political analyst Brian Karem declared in the wake of President Trump’s Twitter spat with Republican Senator Bob Corker (Tenn.) that the President’s support has dwindled to the point that he’s “embrace[d] a base that includes David Duke and white supremacists and the Nazi party.”…