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.

MRC’s Bozell: Liberal Media ‘Choose to Echo’ Dems on SOTU Because ‘They Hate Him’

Curtis Houck | February 1, 2018

Check out the full NB Staff post here from NewsBusters! Following up his statement blasting the liberal media’s reaction to the State of the Union, MRC President Brent Bozell told the Fox Business Network’s Liz MacDonald on Thursday night that President Trump “hit three home runs” talking about America in the mold of Ronald Reagan while Democrats and the media condemned it because “they hate”…

AFL-CIO’s Trumka: People Will Die Because of Trump Slashing Red Tape

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! On the back end of Wednesday's Hardball, host Chris Matthews spoke to AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka and lobbed a softball fretting over whether Trump has made “it more dangerous to work in America” due to slashing government regulations. Trumka said “[t]here’s no question” it’s more dangerous because we already “lose 150 workers every single…

NYT’s Goldberg Smears North Korean Defector Over His Christian Faith

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Liberal New York Timescolumnist Michelle Goldberg stooped to a new low by attacking the emotional recognition of North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho at Tuesday’s State of the Union due to his Christian faith and supposedly being used as a prop to advocate for war with North Korea.

Matthews Compares Devin Nunes, Memo to Joseph McCarthy Searching for Communists

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Hardball host Chris Matthews has quite a reputation of engaging in juvenile behavior and so one of his top insults is to label someone Joseph McCarthy or guilty of engaging in McCarthyism. Speaking to USA Today's Page, Matthews screeched about Nunes and the FBI memo being similar to the Army-McCarthy hearings with Mueller “prosecuting the…

Fake News: Panelists Claim WH Helped Write Intelligence Memo

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway exposed this fake news originally pushed by The Daily Beast that Republican Congressman Devin Nunes (Calif.) had falsely denied colluding with the White House to craft the intelligence memo, but MSNBC’s Hardball fit right in with The Daily Beast as they too pushed this falsehood.

Reid Knocks Melania Traveling Separate from ‘1950's Values’ Trump to SOTU

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Right before the end MSNBC's 12:00 a.m. Eastern coverage on Wednesday after Tuesday's State of the Union, Joy Reid echoed a tweet of hers by knocking Trump as supposedly flaunting himself (and only himself) as “the embodiment of faith, family and 1950s values” even though he’s “a guy who, you know, arrived separately from his wife.”

Trio Surmise Trump Never Read His SOTU Speech Beforehand

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! There comes a point where the hatred of someone just turns into mockery and peddling outlandishly false claims. And such was the case here when this despicable trio of Chris Matthews, Ron Reagan, and Joy Reid jested that the President probably didn’t read his speech beforehand. Ron Reagan observed that “there is this sort of odd feeling you get…

Panel Laugh at Danger of MS-13, People Being ‘Terrified that MS-13 Is Going to Attack Them’

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Seconds after Joy Reid’s morbid take that only Fox News viewers have heard of MS-13, she joined Chris Matthews and Ron Reagan early Wednesday morning in devilishly giggling about Americans being fearful of falling victim to MS-13 burning, castrating, cutting, or raping someone to death.

Reid Mocks MS-13 as Something Nobody ‘Has Ever Heard Of’ Unless You ‘Watch Fox News’

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! AM Joy host Joy Reid already has a reputation as one of the most unpleasant and vile people in cable news, so it was no surprise when she mocked the brutal Hispanic gang MS-13, which has taken hold in various pockets of the country with gruesome reins of terror by illegal immigrants.

Reagan: ‘Odd Watching’ SOTU by Trump Since He’s ‘Actively Betraying the Country’

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2018

Check out the full post here from NewsBusters! Around the 12:53 a.m. Eastern mark, MSNBC political analyst Ron Reagan lost his mind in declaring that he had “an odd feeling watching this speech” because he can’t “remember a time when you would watch a State of the Union address being delivered by a President who is, I guess you could say, actively betraying the country and I don’t think those…