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.

Colbert Jokes Address Wasn’t SOTU Since the South Won; Earnest Quips FNC Is ‘Fake News’

Curtis Houck | March 1, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Bitter, far-left comedian Stephen Colbert hosted a live Late Show on Tuesday following President Trump’s address to a Joint Session of Congress and panned it during his monologue but later conceded that it was “a perfectly good speech” that honored our troops. Also worth noting was former Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest…

Nets Caught Flat-Footed by ‘Disciplined’ Trump; ‘Profoundly Different’ Speech About ‘Hope’

Curtis Houck | March 1, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Cue the sad trombone, folks. Despite the best efforts by Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Rachel Maddow, and other lefties, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered positive reviews of President Trump’s “profoundly different” Tuesday night speech to a Joint Session of Congress that “rested on words, including rebirth, hope, opportunity, and…

Tom Brokaw Trashes Trump Speech, Whines That ‘Fact-Checkers Are Going to Be Very Busy’

Curtis Houck | February 28, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While most of the major broadcast network anchors and panelists were pleasantly surprised by President Trump’s Tuesday night speech to Congress, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw uncorked some long-winded complaints about the address that he claimed will have fact-checkers “very busy for the next 24 hours.” “He also appealed across the…

‘We’re Having a Warren Beatty Moment’; MSNBC Compares Trump Speech to Oscars Screw-Up

Curtis Houck | February 28, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday night prior to President Trump’s address to a Joint Session of Congress, MSNBC anchors Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow joked that the impending visual of Trump being announced in the House chamber as President would be a mistake like the Best Picture flub at the Oscars. “Somebody’s going to yell “Mr. Speaker” and it’s always on…

Cuomo Throws Hissy Fit on Twitter, Tries to Explain Trans Comments

Curtis Houck | February 27, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following his latest combative segment on transgender people by smearing conservatives as “nutz” [sic] with intolerant views that will increase suicide rates, CNN’s New Day co-host Chris Cuomo threw a mini-fissy fit on Twitter Monday morning in the name of “tolerance.” Cuomo took to Twitter almost immediately and proudly touted supporters…

Pence Continues WH’s Knocking of the Media at CPAC; They ‘Amplify...the Failed Status Quo’

Curtis Houck | February 23, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus offered strongly-worded statements on Thursday afternoon at CPAC condemning the media as “the opposition party” to the Trump team, Vice President Mike Pence offered an evening address to a boisterous audience. Of course, he lobbed some jabs at the media of his own…

Matthews: Bannon Is ‘Like Darth Vader’; Pence Won’t Be a ‘Manipulative’ VP Like Cheney

Curtis Houck | February 23, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews compared White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday to Star Wars villain Darth Vader, even though “he’s a good speaker” albeit “a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got.” Also, Matthews couldn’t help but invoke former Vice President and Matthews boogeyman Dick Cheney to…

Bannon, Priebus Double Down on Knocking Media as ‘Opposition Party’; It Will ‘Get Worse’ for Them

Curtis Houck | February 23, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Among the highlights for the first day of CPAC 2017, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus doubled down on their attacks against the media as the former referred to them as “the opposition party” having been “dead wrong” about the election to the point that life will “get worse every day” as the…

Matthews Applauds ‘Anger from Progressives’ at Town Halls, Slammed Tea Party as Racist

Curtis Houck | February 22, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Throughout Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed no concerns or reservations about the “grassroots resistance” and “anger from progressives” on display at congressional and Senate Republican town halls. All the while, he sang a different tune seven and eight years ago when the Tea Party was born, denouncing them as racists…

Sure: CNN’s Baldwin Says It’s ‘Dangerous’ to Wonder If Town Hall Protesters Are Organized

Curtis Houck | February 22, 2017

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The double standard continues, folks. On Tuesday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin seemed dismayed and testy when it came to questioning whether or not the attendees at solid congressional Republican town halls are liberal protesters, bemoaning the idea as “dangerous” rhetoric to be articulating. Of course, NewsBusters readers…