Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

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 ten 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 600 television appearances on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, One America News Network, America's Voice, Cheddar, The First TV, Fox 5 D.C., NRA-TV, and over 1,000 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 with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.

Networks Whine ICE Carried Out ‘Alarming,’ ‘Disturbing’ Raids on Marijuana Farms (Pt. 3)

Curtis Houck | July 11, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Between Thursday night on ABC and Friday morning on CBS and NBC, the major broadcast networks used their flagship newscasts to side with the illegal immigrants — some of them underage — being rounded up Thursday afternoon by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials outside Los Angeles, decrying the “alarming” and “disturbing”…

Networks Whine About ICE Carrying Out ‘Alarming,’ ‘Disturbing’ Raids on Marijuana Farms (Pt. 2)

Curtis Houck | July 11, 2025

Networks Whine ICE Carried Out ‘Alarming,’ ‘Disturbing’ Raids on Marijuana Farms (Pt. 1)

Curtis Houck | July 11, 2025

Hypocrite: MSNBC Host Rips Peter Doocy as ‘Babbling Buffoon,’ ‘Dumbest’ WH Reporter

Curtis Houck | July 10, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell went low in blasting Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy as a “babbling” and “incompetent baffoon” lacking “a shred of embarrassment” but brimming with “revealed stupidity” and “white male privilege” but also used to be “the stupidest reporter in the…

Bill Nye Pops Up on CNN to Tie TX Flooding to U.S. Not Ditching Fossil Fuels

Curtis Houck | July 9, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Far-left cosplaying scientist Bill Nye popped up Wednesday afternoon on CNN’s Inside Politics to tie the apocalyptic and deadly Texas Hill Country floods to not only climate change, but America having yet to go the way of the left’s dreams and ditch fossil fuels. Weekday host Dana Bash set the table by invoking floods in Texas as well…

Gross: ABC, CNN Reporters Hijack Texas Flooding Presser to Demand Scalp For Deaths

Curtis Houck | July 8, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Tuesday morning’s Kerr County, Texas press conference on last week’s apocalyptic floods flew off the rails because of the showboating antics of ABC and CNN’s reporters on scene — ABC with Matt Gutman and CNN with both Shimon Prokupecz and Isabelle Rosales — shouting at local officials (and, at one point, each other) and demanding heads…

CNN Hack Doubles Down on Trump Being Possible Cause of Flooding Deaths

Curtis Houck | July 7, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Having been thoroughly lambasted on X over the weekend for her takes speculating with a rhetorical wink and nudge that Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caused the deaths of nearly 100 people (as of this blog) in Texas floods, CNN senior national security analyst and former Obama official Juliette Kayyem…

CNN Reporter Spends Saturday Speculating on DOGE Cuts Playing Role in TX Flooding Deaths

Curtis Houck | July 7, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Throughout Saturday, CNN senior White House reporter Betsy Klein couldn’t help but work into her live shots blatant speculation about whether cuts to the National Weather Service by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) played a role in the deaths of what was then 50 known dead in catastrophic flooding that struck…

Backtrack: CNN Returns to ‘Hate in America,’ But Admits Motives Are Often ‘Murky’;

Curtis Houck | July 1, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! O, Donie, where art thou?! That was the question worth asking Monday night when CNN’s The Lead had a new report about “Hate in America” in light of the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Colorado and deadly shootings of Minnesota state Democrats and host Jake Tapper brought out correspondent Tom Foreman instead of CNN’s supposed extremism…

How About Them Apples: CBS Discovers Social Security Is Going Broke (Pt. 3)

Curtis Houck | June 27, 2025

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Thursday, CBS showed some admirable news judgment on CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News by choosing to inform viewers about a ticking fiscal bomb many fiscal hawks have been warning about for decades, which is Social Security essentially going broke in the next decade. Even though it’s being talked about as a Republican is in the…