Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

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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.

Nets Fail to Cover Arrest of Five U.S.-Bound Syrians in Honduras with Stolen Passports

Curtis Houck | November 18, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Amidst their ongoing coverage Wednesday night of the terror attacks in Paris, the major broadcast networks failed to report on news that five Syrians had been arrested in the Central American country of Honduras with stolen Greek passports and intended to travel to the U.S. As they do on a near daily basis, the Fox News Channel program Special…

Amanpour Uses Paris Terrorism Standoff to Denounce ‘Far Right,’ ‘Xenophobic Parties' in Europe

Curtis Houck | November 18, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As the police shootout and standoff early Wednesday morning in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis, France was in its contentious moments, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and guest Julien Theron couldn’t help but fret about how the standoff was helping to “literally stok[e] the fires of the far right, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, xenophobic parties…

NBC's Richard Engel Doubts Paris Attacks Will Bring U.S., Others Together to Stop ISIS

Curtis Houck | November 18, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In a welcome change of pace for MSNBC programming on Tuesday night, liberal primetime host Rachel Maddow was given the night off in favor of NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, who anchored the network’s 9:00 p.m. Eastern coverage of the Paris Islamic terror attacks and closed with a brief but astute commentary on how it’s…

ABC’s Karl to Cruz: Isn’t it ‘Un-American’ to Restrict Syrian Refugees?

Curtis Houck | November 17, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In a combative exchange that aired on the Tuesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight, chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl hinted to Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) that he was “un-American” for suggesting that only Syrian refugees who are Christian should be admitted the United States while a moratorium would be placed on those…

Networks Ignore John Kerry’s Suggestion of a ‘Rationale’ for Charlie Hebdo Attacks

Curtis Houck | November 17, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC saw no reason to inform their viewers of Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that he could recognize there having been a “rationale” and “particularized focus” for Islamic terrorists to carry out the January attacks in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebdo but not for the “…

CNN’s Keilar: Hillary’s 9/11, 1960's Comments ‘Certainly Didn’t Go Over Well’

Curtis Houck | November 15, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Reporting from inside the spin room following Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate, CNN’s senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar minced no works in describing Hillary Clinton’s comments on 9/11 and her coming of age in the 1960's to two moments that “certainly didn’t go over well” with aides frantically working to “clean-up” after…

Beinart Admits: Hillary Invoking 9/11 Was ‘Political Answer’; Dems ‘Nonspecific’ on Foreign Policy

Curtis Houck | November 15, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On multiple occasions throughout CNN’s post-Democratic debate analysis late Saturday night, liberal CNN commentator and Atlantic writer Peter Beinart dared to step out and criticize Hillary Clinton for her debate performance on foreign policy and the Democratic Party as a whole for being “very vague” and “nonspecific” on an issue where “polls…

Bernie Sanders Denies Flip-Flop on Hillary’s E-Mails, Blames ‘Media Stuff’

Curtis Houck | November 14, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After being pushed by The Des Moines Register’s Kathie Obradovich during Saturday’s Democratic debate about his flip-flopping on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, socialist Bernie Sanders denied the idea that he had backtracked from his “damn e-mails” comment in the October 13 debate. Instead, Sanders attacked the notion as “media stuff” and…

FNC Panel: Dems Seem ‘Very Small’ on ISIS after Attacks; U.S. Hasn’t ‘Done Whatever It Takes’

Curtis Houck | November 14, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. A special Saturday edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report aired due to the terror attacks 24 hours earlier in Paris with a panel of The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes, U.S. News & World Report’s David Catanese, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Collectively, the panel had a variety of takes, ranging from slamming the…

Former MSNBC Host Blames Western Terror Attacks on U.S. Relationship with Saudi Arabia

Curtis Houck | November 14, 2015

See more in the cross-post on thee NewsBusters blog. Opining on HBO’s Real Time on Friday’s Islamic terror attacks in Paris, former MSNBC host and liberal activist Dylan Ratigan explained that the reason Islamist extremists despise the United States and Western Civilization (and thus carry out attacks) is due to U.S. “financ[ing] the capital flow into Saudi Arabia” that cause poor Muslims to…