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.

MRC's Brent Bozell Cautions: 'Take a Deep Breath' Before Bashing Limbaugh on 2016

Curtis Houck | August 30, 2016

See more in the NB Staff post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday night, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined FNC’s The Kelly File and spoke with host Megyn Kelly to urge caution on the part of conservatives and Republicans in blaming conservative media figures like Rush Limbaugh for Donald Trump’s candidacy by pointing out that, no matter what individuals him say, they face…

Networks Ignore Kerry Suggesting Media Should Spend Less Time on Terrorism

Curtis Houck | August 30, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. It’s been quite the Tuesday on the bias by omission front for the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC as along with ignoring an Associated Press story on over 70 mass graves in ISIS territory being discovered, the same broadcast network morning and evening newscasts also punted on Secretary of State John Kerry lecturing the media to not cover…

MSNBC Panelists Rule Kaepernick Critics Are White, ‘Free Country’ Doesn’t Apply to Blacks

Curtis Houck | August 30, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the weeks leading up to Brian Williams being given the reins to a full-time show again, MSNBC has been rotating hosts for its 11:00 p.m. Eastern hour. On Monday, it was Chris Hayes’s turn with panelists arguing that critics of 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kapernick are all white and fail to realize that black people aren’t free at all in…

NBC Refuses to Cover Clinton Foundation Donor Seeking Special Seating at State Department Event

Curtis Houck | August 29, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday morning, NBC News and Today kept their viewers in the dark on new details from e-mails of Clinton aides that showed the head of the Rockefeller Foundation sought preferential seating at a luncheon held by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department after the organization had given between $10 and $25 million to the…

MSNBC Invites Chelsea Handler on to Boost Rock the Vote, Encourage Pro-Choice Women

Curtis Houck | August 26, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The liberal (disguised as non-partisan) voter registration group Rock the Vote received some free airtime on Friday afternoon’s MSNBC Live as host Thomas Roberts welcomed on celebrity backer and vulgar Netflix host Chelsea Handler to promote the group plus her plea for young women to vote so that more abortion-loving judges could end up on the…

‘Morning Joe’ Pushes Hillary on Foundation, Lets Up in Touting ‘Remarkable,’ ‘Turning Point’ Speech

Curtis Houck | August 26, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Hillary Clinton joined the cast of characters on MSNBC’s Morning Joe late in Friday’s show and co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski questioned her somewhat fairly about the Clinton Foundation and had facial expressions that embodied the lack of trust the American people have in her, but they backed off at some points in hailing her “…

FNC’s Kelly Confronts Ramos on Trump Opposition, Asks Why He Doesn’t Label Hillary a ‘Liar’

Curtis Houck | August 25, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Thursday night, Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos met his match in Fox News Channel’s Kelly File host Megyn Kelly, who proceeded call out Ramos on his claim that journalists shouldn’t be neutral in their coverage of Donald Trump and wondered if he’d do the same for Hillary Clinton since many consider her to be a liar like some Latinos…

Matthews, Mitchell: Clinton Foundation Concerns Are ‘Political’; Donors Are Just Their Friends!

Curtis Houck | August 25, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The panic on the faces of Clinton Foundation defenders grew more palpable on Wednesday night as the questions surrounding donors having meetings with Hillary Clinton’s State Department remained a part of the news cycle, so it was up to liberal journalists like Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews to defend and deflect these…

ABC, CBS Censor Link Between Democrat Senator, EpiPen Outrage Despite 18 Mins of Coverage

Curtis Houck | August 24, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Despite over 18 minutes of coverage of the past week on the skyrocketing cost of EpiPens by over 400 percent, ABC and CBS have failed in their duties to note that the pharmaceutical company CEO being called out for raising the price while hiking her own compensation to almost $19 million is also the daughter of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (W…

CNN Boasts of ‘Excellent,’ ‘Gold Star’ Clinton Foundation; Rules People Will Die Without It

Curtis Houck | August 24, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On the heels of media types like Chris Matthews assuring the American people that the Clinton Foundation is so “great” that his son used to work there, the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Legal View went even further in providing pro-Clinton spin that the foundation has “good governance and accountability” placing it as a “gold star” charity along…