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.

CNN’s Baldwin Plays Publicist for Women’s March; Promises She’ll ‘Check Back In’

Curtis Houck | January 24, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Three days after the far-left Women’s March on Washington, CNN Newsroom host Brooke Baldwin played the role of publicist, relaying new interviews she conducted there and promised them that she’ll “check[ing] back in every ten days” in lockstep with their Ten Actions in 100 Days plan. “More than a million women, the first mass demonstration…

CNN's Jim Sciutto Falsely Claims Trump Didn't Pay Respects to CIA Memorial Wall

Curtis Houck | January 24, 2017

Baldwin Quibbles with Spicer Calling on NY Post; Fleischer Slams Press Corps’s Liberal Tilt

Curtis Houck | January 23, 2017

MSNBC: March Participants ‘Aren’t Protestors,’ Haven’t ‘Lost Their Voice’ After Trump Victory

Curtis Houck | January 21, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Amidst MSNBC’s day-long propaganda effort on Saturday for the Women’s March on Washington, correspondent Stephanie Gosk fawned over how the far-left participants “aren’t protesters” because “[t]hey’ve never protested before” and came “from all over the country, a lot of them with their children, with their daughters.” Gosk was speaking to co-…

Ashley Judd’s R-Rated Rant: Trump Is Hitler with ‘Nazis’ for a Cabinet, Ivanka Is His Top ‘Sex Symbol’

Curtis Houck | January 21, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Of all the far-left, wacky statements made at Saturday’s Women’s March, actress Ashley Judd may take the top honor (or DisHonor) for an R-rated tangent against “Electoral College-sanctioned hate speech” by President Trump and his team of “Nazis” viewing “little girls like Pokemon” and Ivanka Trump as his “favorite sex symbol.” Judd seized the…

Lies: MSNBC Propagandizes Women’s March Is ‘Message of Unity,’ Not ‘Hateful or Anti-Trump’

Curtis Houck | January 21, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Yes, that headline does not contain a typo. All Saturday morning on MSNBC, the liberal cable network foolishly tried to convince viewers that the far-left, pro-abortion Women’s March would offer only “a message of unity” and not be “hateful or anti-Trump.” This is just not true. As my colleague and MRC Culture writer Katie Yoder has repeatedly…

‘They’re Screwing This Up!’ MSNBC Knocks Parade, Trump Family as the New ‘Romanovs’

Curtis Houck | January 20, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBuster blog. These people just won’t let up. Late Friday afternoon, MSNBC couldn’t help but knock the slow pace of the Inauguration Day parade and the Trump family as the new but inexperienced Romanov family that ruled Russia for centuries. Just after 5:00 p.m. Eastern, co-host Brian Williams took note of the diminishing sunlight and its effect on the…

Matthews: Trump Speech Was ‘Hitlerian,’ Jokes He Could Fix Nepotism By Hanging Kushner

Curtis Houck | January 20, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was a living, breathing edition of Notable Quotables on Inauguration Day, offering takes ranging from joking about Mussolini and former President George W. Bush hugging Supreme Court justices to this now-infamous quip that President Trump’s speech was “Hitlerian.” Matthews’s Nazism connection went hand-in-…

Terrified MSNBC Moans Trump Echoed Anti-Semitism; ‘Hard to Hear’ ‘Very Few Olive Branches’

Curtis Houck | January 20, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On MSNBC after President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, hosts and pundits expressed grave concern at a speech that was “dark” and “militant” with anti-Semitic overtones with the use of the phrase “America First.” Co-host Rachel Maddow seemed emotional, speaking softly about how “it was militant and it was dark, the crime, the gangs, the…

Maddow: Obama Is First POTUS in 60 Years 'Without a Significant Scandal'

Curtis Houck | January 20, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Seeing as how they’ve spent their mornings trashing the Trump team for their lack of federal government experience, co-host Rachel Maddow brought up the Secret Service scandal to claim that as the only “Obama years scandal.” “[T]hat's kind of it. This is the first President to be leaving office sense Eisenhower without a significant scandal…