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.

CBS’s Schieffer, NBC’s Mitchell Wonder ‘How Have We Come to This’ With Debate

Curtis Houck | October 10, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After a presidential primary in which the major broadcast networks assigned more than a lion’s share of coverage to Donald Trump overtopping his opponents, the lack of self-awareness following Sunday’s presidential debate was palpable as two network veterans bemoaned “how have we come to this” with so much “venom” between Trump and Hillary…

CBS, NBC Refuse to Cover Vulgar Tweet by Clinton Aide in Post-Debate Coverage

Curtis Houck | October 10, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Aside from the fireworks inside the debate hall at Sunday’s second presidential debate, one campaign controversy that bubbled up that CBS and NBC refused to acknowledge in their post-debate analysis was a tweet from a Hillary Clinton campaign aide telling Donald Trump to “go fuck [himself]” regarding his treatment of the Khan family. Clinton…

Of Course: MSNBC Brings on James Carville to Rebut Trump's Clinton Attacks

Curtis Houck | October 9, 2016

See more in Scott Whitlock's post on the NewsBusters blog.

NBC’s Kerry Sanders Recklessly Wanders into the Ocean During a Hurricane; ‘Here Comes More Water!’

Curtis Houck | October 7, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Here at NewsBusters, Florida-based NBC News correspondent Kerry Sanders has had quite the record over the years (and especially recently) of creating unintentionally humorous and viral moments ranging from trying to talk inside a gun range to misidentifying alligators. Needless to say, Hurricane Matthew has bred another slew of memories that,…

Not Again: PBS’s Woodruff, Guest Tout ‘Interconnection’ Between Climate Deal, Hurricane Matthew

Curtis Houck | October 6, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On the heels of my Drudge Report-linked post about NBC’s Ron Allen informing MSNBC on Wednesday that the Paris climate change deal “is designed to stop” weather events like Hurricane Matthew, Thursday’s PBS NewsHour joined ranks of the absurdity as Judy Woodruff and guest Gavin Schmidt from NASA pondered the “interconnection” between climate…

Samantha Bee's VP Debate Spin: ‘Care Bear’ Kaine vs. ‘Homophobic Race Bannon’ Pence

Curtis Houck | October 6, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After some time off from blogging TBS’s Full Frontal and an acknowledgement from the show that yours truly lives rent free inside their heads, I checked back in on Samantha Bee’s unfunny program as she opined that the vice presidential debate featured “Hillary Clinton’s care bear” Tim Kaine facing “homophobic Race Bannon” known as Republican…

What?? NBC’s Ron Allen Thinks Climate Deal Is ‘Designed to Stop’ Storms Like Hurricane Matthew

Curtis Houck | October 5, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. President Barack Obama spoke to reporters on Wednesday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden commenting on the required number of nations having ratified the Paris climate change agreement and, almost on cue, NBC’s Ron Allen connected global warming to Hurricane Matthew set to bear down on the Bahamas, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. …

Live ‘Late Show’ Jokes Pence Is Gay Giving Putin Blowjobs; Conway Won’t ‘Hold Your Hair’ If You Puke

Curtis Houck | October 5, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As it did for the first presidential debate, CBS’s Late Show was live again on Tuesday night to comment on the vice presidential debate as host Stephen Colbert denigrated the Bible with a fake verse about Indiana pizza parlors and crudely joking that Republican nominee Mike Pence is gay giving blowjobs to Russian President Vladimir Putin.…

ABC, NBC Brush Off Kaine’s Interruptions; He Was ‘Willing to Sacrifice Himself’ to Defend Hillary

Curtis Houck | October 4, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the moments following Tuesday’s lone 2016 vice presidential debate, ABC and NBC did their best to offer an overarching spin that while Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (Va.) constantly and in many cases rudely interrupted Republican Governor Mike Pence (Ind.) and moderator Elaine Quijano, the debate won’t matter much to final result and Kaine…

'Morning Joe' Hosts, Guest Unload on Media for 'End Zone Dances' on Twitter Attacking Trump

Curtis Houck | October 4, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday morning, one of the more intriguing debates about media bias took place on MSNBC’s Morning Joe as the assembled co-hosts and Politico founder Jim Vandehei excoriated their colleagues in the media for flashing their liberal bias “in a way they never did before” in their collective desire to take down Donald Trump (to the benefit of…