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 TimesThe Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, TownhallWashington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington PostThe 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.

Curtis Houck | October 6, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Thursday’s Hardball, the MSNBC panel showcased how the left will never be interested in compromise on gun control and will move the goal posts toward gun confiscation, all the while pushing fake news about Second Amendment advocates.  As usual, host Chris Matthews was at the center of it all, falsely smearing Republicans as “a fanatic party…
Curtis Houck | October 5, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. A number of establishment, liberal journalists responded with smugness on Thursday’s Hardball to President Trump’s tweet earlier in the day that the Senate Intelligence Committee should investigate news organizations for spreading “Fake News.”  As expected, they touted their supposedly strict standards and brushed aside claims of media bias as…
Curtis Houck | October 5, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Along with the Las Vegas shooting and Puerto Rico, Thursday’s White House press briefing featured a litany of questions about morning tweets by President Trump requesting the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate journalists for their “Fake News.” Needless to say, CNN’s Jim Acosta led the way in showing his profession’s displeasure.  “…
Curtis Houck | October 5, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Acosta popped up on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin once the briefing ended to state that “Sanders sort of answered the question” later on “where she said I don't think that's what we're talking about here, something along those lines, but we’re not really definitively answering this question, not definitively closing the door on this.” In…
Curtis Houck | October 4, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Leading off Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews seemed to insinuate a comparison between pro-gun advocates and the communist North Vietnam in a segment about gun control in the wake of Sunday night’s Las Vegas shooting.  All the while, Matthews’s two assembled guests/so-called journalists mocked certain gun owners and bewailed the “…
Curtis Houck | September 29, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. FS1's morning dumpster fire Undisputed has been a clearing house for far-left sports punditry, so it was only cemented Friday morning when co-hosts Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless shamefully ripped Green Bay Packers fans as white people more interested in “heartland patriotism” than protesting during the National Anthem. A portion of the show’…
Curtis Houck | September 29, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After engaging in character assassination against Green Bay Packers fans who chose not to protest during Thursday’s National Anthem, FS1's Undisputed co-host Shannon Sharpe did the same with the American flag, declaring it to be merely a racist “piece of cloth” that “nobody fights for.” “The flag, you see, to a lot of people, symbols,…
Curtis Houck | September 29, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following the lead of Thursday’s White House press briefing, MSNBC’s Hardball decided to not discuss how the Trump tax reform plan could help millions of Americans by unleashing massive economic growth, but instead how President Trump would benefit from it. “Donald Trump ran for president promising to fight for the middle class against the…
Curtis Houck | September 28, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you’re shown otherwise. During Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews compared the Russian-backed social media trolls during the 2016 election to the 9/11 hijackers who murdered thousands of Americans in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Matthews was speaking to T.V. hog and Democratic…
Curtis Houck | September 28, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Like many of CNN’s town halls, Wednesday night’s NFL special featured multiple perspectives and balanced questioning, but the goodwill and dialogue was degraded by liberal filmmaker Spike Lee’s intolerant outbursts.  Chief among them was Lee’s insistence that politics cannot be avoided in sports (and thus must be mixed) because of the country’…