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.

Matthews Tangles with Sanders Chair Over ‘Very Personal’ Speech Transcript Criticism

Curtis Houck | April 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. A week after MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews spared with Sanders campaign chairman Jeff Weaver but later admitted that Sanders stokes his “erogenous zone,” the pair were at it again on Tuesday night as Matthews complained that Weaver was being “so tough” towards Hillary Clinton with “very personal” attacks on her lucrative paid speeches.…

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Curtis Houck | April 18, 2016

TOPICS: -- Hillary Clinton -- Bernie Sanders -- Hugh Hefner -- Path to GOP nomination for John Kasich -- Nowruz (Iranian New Year) -- Iranian nuclear deal -- $15/hr minimum wage in California -- Geraldo Rivera being voted off Dancing with the Stars

Lefty Columnist Nichols: Cruz Is ‘Maybe Less’ Attractive for General Election Than Trump

Curtis Houck | April 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. A frequent guest on now-cancelled MSNBC program The Ed Show, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols appeared on MSNBC Monday afternoon and proclaimed that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “is no more attractive to the Republican establishment” than Donald Trump and “maybe less” so because he’d do worse geographically…

Nets Bow to Hillary, Clooney Over Claims Their Fundraisers Will Go Away If Citizens United Does

Curtis Houck | April 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday morning, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC fell in line and faithfully touted the promises of liberal actor George Clooney that his fundraisers for Democrats like Hillary Clinton will go away once they elect enough of them to ensure the Supreme Court overturns the Citizens United decision. Further, CBS This Morning used…

Gutfeld: Democratic Debate Was ‘So Depressing’ ‘Like a Rock Concert for Occupy Wall Street’

Curtis Houck | April 15, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In a break from the more traditional post-debate analysis routine, the Fox News Channel chose to award the cast of The Five its sole post-Democratic debate hour on Thursday and, of course, it featured humorous quips from co-host Greg Gutfeld. The quirky Gutfeld opined that, among many spit takes throughout the hour, the debate was more along…

Van Jones Praises Bernie’s ‘Integrity’ Backing ‘Palestinian Rights’; Real ‘Level of Integrity’

Curtis Houck | April 14, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. CNN political commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones offered some rather kind words for socialist Senator Bernie Sanders following Thursday’s CNN Democratic Debate in praising his “extraordinary” “level of integrity” for demanding the need for “Palestinian rights” in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Prior to Jones…

Hillary Clinton Complains to Debate Moderators About No Abortion Questions

Curtis Houck | April 14, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the penultimate segment of Thursday’s CNN Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton diverted from the discussion topic about the Supreme Court vacancy to chastise CNN and all of the previous debate hosts for not asking both her and her opponents about the issue of abortion (since it’s an issue that’s such a firm plank of the Democratic Party). …

Shock: CNN’s Bash Hammers Hillary on Paid Speeches; ‘It’s Not About the Republicans’

Curtis Houck | April 14, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Early on in what instantly became a heated CNN Democratic Debate on Thursday, co-moderator Dana Bash repeatedly spared with Hillary Clinton over her refusal to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to large Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and when Clinton ducked her questions, Bash told her that this is “not about the Republicans”…

CBS Teams with White House, Pelosi to Attack GOP for Not Creating $1.9 Billion for Fighting Zika

Curtis Houck | April 14, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Thursday’s CBS Evening News featured a segment in which chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook tag-teamed with the White House and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to attack Republicans for not going along with demands to create $1.9 billion (that could be passed through Congress) to allow the CDC and NIH to fight the Zika virus. While…

Sharpton Snaps at Megyn Kelly to ‘Calm Down’ When Challenged on Ferguson Findings

Curtis Houck | April 13, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Along with addressing her meeting with Donald Trump earlier in the day, Kelly File host Megyn Kelly began Wednesday’s show by clashing with MSNBC host/liberal activist Reverend Al Sharpton over what transpired in Ferguson, Missouri to the point that Sharpton rudely told Kelly to “calm down.” In what was part of a wide-ranging interview dealing…