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 | May 16, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN host Wolf Blitzer repeatedly nudged guests to accept the notion of impeaching President Donald Trump following a New York Times piece claiming that Trump told then-FBI Director James Comey in February to end the Mike Flynn probe.  Blitzer was speaking to liberal Senator Angus King (I-Maine) when he played…
Curtis Houck | May 16, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday afternoon, White House counselor and former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway responded on Twitter to suggestions lodged on Monday by Morning Joe co-hosts/lovers Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that she secretly loathes President Trump. A day after the MSNBC pundits claimed that she complained about disliking Trump and…
Curtis Houck | May 15, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday’s New Day, CNN guest and liberal George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley calmly dismantled the media’s hysteria over President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, towing the line between concern for what happened and suggesting the “rhetorical spin” be toned down. Turley appeared opposite pompous co-host…
Curtis Houck | May 12, 2017
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Curtis Houck | May 12, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. When they go low, we go....lower? Apparently, that was the way things went in one CNN panel Friday morning as former FBI agent Philip Mudd suggested that President Trump deserves “a pacifier and a rattle” and placed “in the crib” while CNN historian Tim Neftali expressed dismay at the United States having become a “20th century banana republic…
Curtis Houck | May 11, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In Thursday’s White House daily briefing, Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders held her own in another pitch-hit appearance for Sean Spicer, tussling with ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl over the timeline for James Comey’s ouster from the FBI.  At one point in the briefing, Huckabee Sanders had clearly moved on from…
Curtis Houck | May 10, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Appearing on CNN Wednesday afternoon to participate in the network-wide meltdown over James Comey’s ouster as FBI Director, longtime liberal journalists and CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein invoked Watergate but went further, fretting that “this is terribly dangerous moment in American history.” “The President of the United States has…
Curtis Houck | May 10, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. You knew this was coming. In light of James Comey being fired early Tuesday night as FBI Director by President Trump, the knives were out on CNN Wednesday morning with New Day co-host Chris Cuomo interrogating, interrupting, and generally losing his mind while going after White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway.  I won’t belabor you, the…
Curtis Houck | May 9, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the world of liberals, only their personal anecdotes matter and can’t be challenged. On CNN’s New Day early Tuesday morning, liberal co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo invited colleagues Brian Stelter and Bill Carter to laud ABC comic Jimmy Kimmel for his health care position that “no one should be able to dispute.”  The CNN panel’s…
Curtis Houck | May 8, 2017
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Along with gender neutral acting performances and a gay kiss winning Best Kiss, the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards continued its downward spiral into a farce as the crowd gave far-left, scandal-ridden Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Calif.) a standing ovation to laud her as “an extraordinary example.” Waters appeared alongside Tracee…