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.

Cuomo Throws Hissy Fit on Twitter, Tries to Explain Trans Comments

Curtis Houck | February 27, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following his latest combative segment on transgender people by smearing conservatives as “nutz” [sic] with intolerant views that will increase suicide rates, CNN’s New Day co-host Chris Cuomo threw a mini-fissy fit on Twitter Monday morning in the name of “tolerance.” Cuomo took to Twitter almost immediately and proudly touted supporters…

Pence Continues WH’s Knocking of the Media at CPAC; They ‘Amplify...the Failed Status Quo’

Curtis Houck | February 23, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus offered strongly-worded statements on Thursday afternoon at CPAC condemning the media as “the opposition party” to the Trump team, Vice President Mike Pence offered an evening address to a boisterous audience. Of course, he lobbed some jabs at the media of his own…

Matthews: Bannon Is ‘Like Darth Vader’; Pence Won’t Be a ‘Manipulative’ VP Like Cheney

Curtis Houck | February 23, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews compared White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday to Star Wars villain Darth Vader, even though “he’s a good speaker” albeit “a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got.” Also, Matthews couldn’t help but invoke former Vice President and Matthews boogeyman Dick Cheney to…

Bannon, Priebus Double Down on Knocking Media as ‘Opposition Party’; It Will ‘Get Worse’ for Them

Curtis Houck | February 23, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Among the highlights for the first day of CPAC 2017, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus doubled down on their attacks against the media as the former referred to them as “the opposition party” having been “dead wrong” about the election to the point that life will “get worse every day” as the…

Matthews Applauds ‘Anger from Progressives’ at Town Halls, Slammed Tea Party as Racist

Curtis Houck | February 22, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Throughout Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed no concerns or reservations about the “grassroots resistance” and “anger from progressives” on display at congressional and Senate Republican town halls. All the while, he sang a different tune seven and eight years ago when the Tea Party was born, denouncing them as racists…

Sure: CNN’s Baldwin Says It’s ‘Dangerous’ to Wonder If Town Hall Protesters Are Organized

Curtis Houck | February 22, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The double standard continues, folks. On Tuesday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin seemed dismayed and testy when it came to questioning whether or not the attendees at solid congressional Republican town halls are liberal protesters, bemoaning the idea as “dangerous” rhetoric to be articulating. Of course, NewsBusters readers…

On MSNBC, USA Today’s Przybyla Argues Anti-Semitism Is Now ‘Mainstream’ on the Right

Curtis Houck | February 21, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC political analyst and USA Today senior political reporter Heidi Przybyla brazenly argued that anti-Semitism is becoming “mainstream” on the right after having been only a “fringe, alt-right, white nationalist movement.” Przybyla continued the liberal media’s obsession with normalizing white…

Brennan Touts SPLC in Hitting Spicer from Left on Attempts to Link Trump to Anti-Semitism

Curtis Houck | February 21, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After President Donald Trump spent a long weekend at Mar-a-lago, Sean Spicer held his first White House press briefing of the week on Tuesday. There, he faced a slew of questioning about a string of nationwide anti-Semitic crimes, including the touting of the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to suggest Trump’s led to a rise in…

Katy Tur Doesn’t Recall Obama Telling Russians He’d Have ‘More Flexibility’ After Reelection

Curtis Houck | February 20, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday, our friend SooperMexican at The Right Scoop caught this embarrassing exchange on MSNBC as Katy Tur admitted to her guest that she was couldn’t recall President Barack Obama being caught on a hot mike in 2012 saying he’d have “more flexibility” to work with Russia after his reelection. Tur was speaking to Republican Congressman…

Pelley: Trump’s Problem Isn’t the Media, It’s That He Can’t Follow the Constitution!

Curtis Houck | February 17, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Friday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley strayed into punditry as he observed that “the common denominator of Mr. Trump’s woes is the Constitution” and not the media because they didn’t cause the departure of Mike Flynn, halt his immigration executive order, or have Andy Pudzer withdraw as the Labor Secretary nominee. While discussing…