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.

Ezra Klein, Chris Hayes Lament Hillary’s Sometimes Too Wonky for Voters to Grasp

Curtis Houck | January 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Discussing the fallout of Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s All In, host Chris Hayes and Vox Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein lamented that Clinton’s “tremendous command and mastery” of subject material when working with colleagues hasn’t exactly shown through to voters as she’s “seemed paralyzed by her…

NBC NN Fails to Cover NBC Being Stripped of GOP Debate, Given to CNN Instead

Curtis Houck | January 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday, the major English and Spanish network ignored on their evening newscasts the decision by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to officially strip NBC News of its chance to host the February 26 Republican presidential debate that was soon after awarded to CNN (while keeping previous partners Telemundo and National Review). This,…

FNC Post-Debate Panel Blast Dems for Omitting National Security in First 100 Days Question

Curtis Houck | January 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In contrast to the other post-Democratic debate analyses on Sunday night, the guests assembled on the Fox News Channel (FNC) repeatedly ripped the three presidential candidates for failing to mention national security or foreign policy in the debates’s first question from NBC co-moderator Lester Holt on what three things they would do in their…

CNN’s Begala, Bash Downplay Clinton Sex Scandals; ‘Nobody Wants to Talk About’ That

Curtis Houck | January 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After NBC’s Democratic co-moderator Andrea Mitchell wanted to know from Bernie Sanders in Sunday’s debate about whether or not he regretted bringing up Bill Clinton’s sex scandals, the post-debate analysis on CNN saw panelists Dana Bash and Paul Begala (a former Clinton aide) less than pleased with the issue and did their best to downplay its…

CNN’s Zeleny Gushes Hillary ‘Dominated’ Bernie; FNC’s Henry Rules He Had the ‘Best Performance’

Curtis Houck | January 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Batting lead-off on the post-Democratic debate coverage of their respective networks late Sunday, CNN’s Jeff Zeleny and FNC’s Ed Henry couldn’t have offered a larger contrast as Zeleny gushed that Hillary Clinton “pretty much dominated” Bernie Sanders on “the issues” while FNC’s Ed Henry observed that it was Sanders who “dominat[ed] the agenda…

Andrea Mitchell Serves Bernie Vague Clinton Sex Scandals Question, Allows Sanders to Bash Media

Curtis Houck | January 17, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Near the end of Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate on NBC, co-moderator, Clinton correspondent, and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell served up the lone question on Bill Clinton’s sex scandals in a misleading and vague fashion that allowed Senator Bernie Sanders to dodge the substance of the matter and instead falsely bash the media for…

Chuck Todd to Pelosi: ‘You Broke a Marble Ceiling,’ So ‘How Important Is It’ for Dems to Elect Hillary?

Curtis Houck | January 17, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the pre-Democratic debate show on MSNBC Sunday night, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd brought on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and asked her if, as “a student of American politics” and someone who “broke a marble ceiling as first woman Speaker of the House,” how significant it would be “for the Democratic Party to elect…

No Surprise: Stephanopoulos Lobs Softballs at Hillary, Ignores Benghazi Movie, Chicago, Chelsea Clinton

Curtis Houck | January 17, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Hillary Clinton conducted interviews on four of the five major Sunday morning talk shows (the lone omission being Fox News Sunday) and while CNN’s Jake Tapper, NBC’s Chuck Todd, and even CBS’s John Dickerson asked questions of substance, the fourth interview offered a stark contrast with former Clinton official and Clinton Foundation donor…

Reid: Cruz Nomination Wouldn’t Work Since He Wasted Time ‘Blowing Up His Home Team's Court’

Curtis Houck | January 17, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Despite admitting on Sunday’s Meet the Press that she wasn’t a token expert on Republican politics, MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid attempted to impart some wisdom to the GOP by ruling that Ted Cruz wouldn’t be successful as the party’s presidential nominee since “he’s spent his entire Senate career essentially blowing up his home team's…

Against Fiorina Wisecrack, 'The View' Honors Hillary Staying Married: 'Hashtag #B***hCommits'

Curtis Houck | January 17, 2016

See more in Tim Graham's post on the NewsBusters blog.