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.

ABC, PBS Extol ‘Stern and Direct’ Obama Speech; ‘Struck’ by Pledge to ‘Destroy’ ISIS

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While NBC’s Lester Holt was wondering before President Obama’s speech Sunday night if it would “be a defining moment for this presidency,” his counterparts on ABC and PBS picked up where he left off afterward by enthusiastically praising how “struck” they were by “a stern and direct” Obama “laying out...a strong and smart strategy” to deal with…

NBC’s Lester Holt: Will Obama’s Speech ‘Be a Defining Moment for His Presidency?’

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Seconds before President Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt gave viewers a quick preview with Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and wondered to Todd if the speech will mark “a defining moment for this presidency.” After being tossed to by Football in America co-host Bob Costas…

Tanden Encourages Obama to Use Speech to Denounce GOP’s ‘Language’ Attacking Muslims

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Center for American Progress (CAP) President Neera Tanden joined CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning as part of the panel and encouraged President Obama to use part of his Oval Office speech later in the day to denounce Republicans for their “continual language....to target Muslims” which she argued the GOP’s so-called Islamophobia “is…

Domenech, Will Slam NYT Gun Control Editorial; ‘Real Gap’ Between Obama and American People

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Three of the four Sunday network morning news shows commented on Saturday’s New York Times front-page editorial calling for massive gun control, but it was The Federalist’s Ben Domenech and The Washington Post’s George Will that provided the most succinct takedowns of the liberal paper and the disconnect it exhibited in opinion between the…

Liberal PBS Analyst Mark Shields: Dems Have Been 'Tone Deaf' on Terror Since Paris Attacks

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015

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

CNN Guest Andy Parker Accuses GOPers of Treason, 'Aiding and Abetting Terrorists'

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015

See more in Brad Wilmouth's post on the NewsBusters blog.

Networks Cheer NYT’s ‘Historic’ Gun Control Editorial; ‘Dramatic’ ‘Front-Page Outrage’

Curtis Houck | December 5, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Saturday, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued to prove why the liberal media loves congratulating itself for their so-called accomplishments as the morning and evening newscasts spent nearly four minutes cheering the “historic” decision by The New York Times to publish a “dramatic” front-page editorial chiding gun rights…

Fallon: New Star Wars Character Rey Hired by Jeb Bush Since She ‘Tries to Salvage’ Wrecks

Curtis Houck | December 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon chose to weave the 2016 election and the promotion of upcoming guest Daisy Ridley from Star Wars: The Force Awakens into his opening monologue late Thursday by joking that Ridley’s character had been hired by the Jeb Bush campaign in “an interesting coincidence” since “she plays a character who tries to salvage…

New York Daily News Doubles Down; Compares ‘Terrorist’ NRA, LaPierre to Farook, Adam Lanza

Curtis Houck | December 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Further displaying their ability to have no shame, the far-left, anti-religious New York Daily News emerged late Thursday to unveil the cover of its Friday paper that compares alleged San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook to the “terrorist” National Rifle Association (NRA) and long-time executive Wayne LaPierre plus four other perpetrators of mass…

Trevor Noah: 'I Feel Bad' Obama Hasn't Passed Gun Control After 'Begging' GOP for Years

Curtis Houck | December 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Moments before Daily Show host Trevor Noah went on a tirade Thursday night calling Ted Cruz “an asshole” and compared him to a skunk, the liberal late-night comic admitted that the “feel[s] bad” for President Obama because “[h]e has been begging for gun control for six years” to no success supposedly because of Republican Senators. Noah…