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.

MSNBC's Reid Hails 'Exquisite,' 'Splendid' DNC Speech by Michelle Obama

Curtis Houck | July 26, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Providing her initial thoughts on the evening and particularly First Lady Michelle Obama’s address, AM Joy host Joy Reid basked in the idea that African-American women were in key roles for the first night of the DNC before having this to say about Mrs. Obama: [F]or Michelle Obama to culminate that in that magnificent, exquisite speech as a…

Networks Laud ‘Artfully Painted,’ ‘Remarkable’ Michelle Obama Speech; Touts People Crying

Curtis Houck | July 26, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were hard pressed for time on Monday night to comment on speeches at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) by Senators Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.), but there was time after First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech to gush over her “artfully painted” address featuring “trademark...…

CNN, MSNBC Swoon Over ‘Brilliant’ DNC Speech by Cory Booker; A ‘Star Has Launched’

Curtis Houck | July 25, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the short time between speeches during Monday’s primetime schedule of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), CNN and MSNBC went out of their way to absolutely swoon over Senator Cory Booker’s speech that they deemed “brilliant,” “a home run,” and “powerful” that the assembled pundits claim they hadn’t seen since then-Illinois State…

NBC Hails Activist/Illegal Immigrant ‘Living the American Dream’ Speaking to DNC

Curtis Houck | July 25, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Closing out Monday’s NBC Nightly News at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), national correspondent Peter Alexander found it pertinent to heap effusive praise on far-left activist and illegal immigrant Astrid Silva being able to address the DNC as someone “living the American Dream” but “all you’re missing is being an American” because…

Chuck Todd Wonders If Society Is Holding Hillary to ‘Unfair’ ‘Different Bar’ Ahead of DNC Speech

Curtis Houck | July 25, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Meet the Press moderator and MSNBC’s MTP Daily host Chuck Todd offered some intriguing thoughts early Monday evening on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) thus far that ranged from admitting that the first day of the DNC is both “messier” and “worse” than the start of the Republican National Convention (RNC) but later wondered if Hillary…

NBC’s Engel, Todd Link Brexit Vote to Odds Munich Attack Was Done by Right-Winger

Curtis Houck | July 22, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. With still nothing definitively known about the identity of the Munich, Germany attacker or attackers early Friday night, MSNBC’s MTP Daily ushered the Brexit vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union into the conversation as an example of anti-refugee sentiment that, in their speculations, was behind the mall shooting in Germany…

MSNBC Bemoans ‘Intolerant’ ‘Right-Wing Parties’ in Wake of Germany Attack

Curtis Houck | July 22, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the midst of MSNBC’s rolling coverage Friday afternoon of what appeared to be an act of terrorism in Germany, breaking news anchor Brian Williams and NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel used the occasion to lament the rise of “a rightward tilt” in Europe of “intolerant” ideologies and parties against Muslims and Middle Eastern…

Colbert Wonders If Hillary’s Isn’t Forgiven for Her Lies Like Trump Because She’s a Woman

Curtis Houck | July 22, 2016

CNBC’s Quintanilla: Trump’s Use of Illegal Alien Murders Reminiscent of Willie Horton Ad

Curtis Houck | July 22, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. CNBC provided coverage on the final two nights of the Republican National Convention and on Thursday, Squawk on the Street co-host and infamous GOP debate co-moderator Carl Quintanilla condemned Donald Trump’s mentioning of Americans being murdered by illegal immigrants because it reminded him of the Willie Horton ad from 1988. Upon hearing a…

Maddow: Trump’s Speech Could Be ‘Gateway Drug’ for KKK Becoming Mainstream in GOP

Curtis Houck | July 22, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After her MSNBC colleagues determined that Donald Trump’s convention speech Thursday night was a message derived from talk radio to “white America” that he would “protect” them, convention co-host Rachel Maddow stated just after the midnight Eastern mark that Trump serves as “a gateway drug” to transforming the GOP into one featuring people…