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.

Satirical Interview by CRTV of Ocasio-Cortez Draws Hysterical Outrage

Curtis Houck | July 26, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Earlier this week, our friends at CRTV channel found a unique way to cover the midterm contests by creating a satircal video made (using clips from a real, PBS interview) to appear like conservative personality Allie Stuckey had interviewed well-known socialist Democratic House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. After watching the…

Matthews Compares Trump to a Communist for Banning CNN Reporter, Setting AF1 TVs to FNC

Curtis Houck | July 25, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Offering quite the overreaction to the controversial White House decision to ban CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews loosely tied President Trump to communist regimes of yesteryear when “people were only allowed to hear news from the government, that you got arrested or worse if you were caught…

White House Bans CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from Event in ‘Unprecedented’ ‘Attack’ on Reporters

Curtis Houck | July 25, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Wednesday afternoon, the White House took the step of banning CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins from a Rose Garden announcement about tariffs following what the Trump administration believed were inappropriate questions shouted by Collins hours earlier about Michael Cohen and Vladimir Putin to the President. In reacting to…

‘Hardball’ A-Block Freaks Over ‘Delusional,’ ‘Strong Man’ Trump, Compares Him to John Wilkes Booth

Curtis Houck | July 25, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Day after day in the Trump era, one has to wonder if the left and their media allies will run out of panic buttons to push. Such was the case Tuesday night on MSNBC’s Hardball as host Chris Matthews and his A-Block panelists accused the President of being a “delusional” “strong man” than ever and akin to John Wilkes Booth agreeing to…

Hardball Panel Peddles Fake News About Sessions Chanting ‘Lock Her Up’ at TPUSA Event

Curtis Houck | July 24, 2018

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! For those who follow this author on Twitter, you’ll find that I’m not a fan of Turning Point USA. That said, the liberal media’s fake news machine reared its head on Tuesday when numerous outlets falsely claimed Attorney General Jeff Sessions chanted the infamous “lock her up” chant about Hillary Clinton when prompted by students at…

Biased Hackjob: The Worst Moments from CNN’s ‘2000s’ Smear of Bush (Video 5)

Curtis Houck | July 23, 2018

Check out link the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! After correctly highlighting the Bush flub about then-FEMA administration Michael Brown doing “a heckuva job,” the CNN documentary took aim at Bush as — you guessed it — a racist like Kayne West argued in not caring about African-Americans. Former MTV News personality and current Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith argued that “[y]ou…

Biased Hackjob: The Worst Moments from CNN’s ‘2000s’ Smear of Bush (Video 4)

Curtis Houck | July 23, 2018

Check out link the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! For those not convinced that CNN deployed a hatchet job against Bush, the liberal network’s historical documentary did that and then some when it came to the monumental environmental and human disaster of Hurricane Katrina. At a most basic level, it failed to place any blame on the top two Louisiana officials in charge during…

Biased Hackjob: The Worst Moments from CNN’s ‘2000s’ Smear of Bush (Video 3)

Curtis Houck | July 23, 2018

Check out link the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Along with demonizing the Swift Boat Vets group as a sick, dark money ploy that brainwashed voters, CNN offered another wink, wink that Bush stole the election by fear-mongering voters about gay people. With the 2004 legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the issue emerged on the national scene. Boston Globe columnist…

Biased Hackjob: The Worst Moments from CNN’s ‘2000s’ Smear of Bush (Video 2)

Curtis Houck | July 23, 2018

Check out link the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Put simply, the 2004 election recap was emblematic of why the media’s biased and this series was made way too soon. Instead of focusing on how the 2004 election results yielded a mandate for Bush, it offered a wink and nudge to the audience that the Bush campaign stole it from John Kerry thanks to dark money propping up Swift Boats…

Biased Hackjob: The Worst Moments from CNN’s ‘2000s’ Smear of Bush (Video 1)

Curtis Houck | July 23, 2018

Check out link the link to the post here from NewsBusters! For some reason, CNN decided that it would air the latest installment of its comprehensive and informative miniseries on recent decades in America history with the 2000s despite the fact that many of the same actors, elected officials, journalists, and TV shows remained relevant into this decade. Instead of waiting — I don’t know — at…