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.

ABC’s Karl Uses New Anti-Trump Book to Warn of ‘Third Reich’ Rhetoric, Bash Voters

Curtis Houck | November 13, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Tuesday, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl’s third anti-Trump book hits shelves and will send Resistance types into further episodes of collective hyperventilation over Trump and the GOP as threats to national security who must be crushed in 2024. Karl hawked the book on Monday’s Good Morning America and lashed out at…

On FNC, MRC's Houck SLAMS 'Farcical' WashPost for Axing Hamas Cartoon, NYT's Protest Advice

Curtis Houck | November 11, 2023

Check out the link to the NB Staff post here from NewsBusters! NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck made his return Friday to the Fox News Channel for Fox News @ Night and, on the docket, Houck and host Trace Gallagher lambasted The Washington Post for their “ludicrous” and “farcical” “surrender[ing]” to pro-Hamas voices by taking down a cartoon slamming Hamas, The New York Times giving…

NewsNation’s Vittert, IDF’s Conricus Tell You How It REALLY Works with Gaza Stringers

Curtis Houck | November 10, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Continuing NewsNation’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war that more networks and news outlets should emulate, On Balance host Leland Vittert spent a segment Thursday night laying out no only how the much-reported four-hour pauses in Israel’s war on Hamas were merely word games from the press and White House, but how claims from…

Network Morning Shows Skip Brawl Outside LA Screening of Film Showing Hamas Violence

Curtis Houck | November 9, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Thursday morning, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to mention the latest attack on supporters of Israel as a brawl broke out late Wednesday in Los Angeles outside a screening of raw, graphic footage from Hamas’s animalistic October 7 terror attacks, hosted in part by Israeli actress Gal Gadot. ABC’s Good…

‘Twilight Zone’; ABC, CBS Rip GOP Debate ‘Divorced From Reality’, Hail ‘Smart’ Trump Team

Curtis Houck | November 9, 2023

Check out the link ot the full post here from NewsBusters! While NBC’s Today gave predictably sober, serious coverage Thursday to its Republican presidential debate from the night before, ABC’s Good Morning America lampooned the debate as a pointless trip into the “Twilight Zone” and “divorced from reality” and CBS Mornings dismissed its necessity given the “disciplined” and “smart” race being…

‘Dramatic and Emotional’; Nets Commiserate With Anti-Israel Tlaib Over Censure Vote

Curtis Houck | November 8, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! ABC, CBS, and NBC all covered Wednesday morning the bipartisan censure of far-left Congresswoman and Squad member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her deep-seated hatred of Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric, most recently posting a video with pro-Hamas supporters chanting “from the river to the sea.” But while they noted the dangerous rhetoric…

‘Passionate Protesters’; Nets Hail ‘Tens of Thousands’ Marching ‘In Support of Palestinians’

Curtis Houck | November 7, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC unsurprisingly failed this week to convey even the most basic facts about what they’ve insisted were “thousands of pro-Palestinian” marchers “ma[king] their voices heard” this past weekend — including in Washington D.C. — when the more adept description would be pro-Hamas rallies calling for…

CBS Ignores Murder of Jewish Man as ABC, NBC Downplay It as ‘Altercation,’ ‘Fight’ Gone Bad

Curtis Houck | November 7, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Monday night, word trickled out and was amplified by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles that 69-year-old Phil Kessler died Sunday from injuries suffered after his skull struck the sidewalk following what the group alleged was an attack by a pro-Hamas protester who allegedly smacked him to the ground with a bullhorn. Kessler’…

World ‘Recoiling in Horror’ at IDF; Nets Open Week Smearing Israel Being ‘In No Mood to Compromise’

Curtis Houck | November 6, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Between Sunday and Monday, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to start a new week of anti-Israel smears and siding with Hamas terrorists as Tuesday marks one month since the latter’s animalistic barbarism murdered at least 1,400 innocents and resulted in over 200 hostages…

NBC’s ‘Today’ Goes HARD on Treating Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia as Equally Pervasive

Curtis Houck | November 3, 2023

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! This week on NBC’s Today, they went through quite the transformation from caring about anti-Semitism on college campuses (with only passing, almost faux attempts at bothsidesism with Islamophobia) to Thursday creeping toward bothsidesism to Friday pouting with pro-Hamas students being identified in public as terrorist sympathizers. Co-…