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.

What? Watch as Your Favorite CNN Personalities Dance, Drink as They Sing 'Sweet Carolina'

Curtis Houck | July 29, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. For the small handful of people who stayed up late past midnight Eastern Thursday into Friday on CNN, the conclusion of its Democratic National Convention (DNC) coverage saw some very strange scenes break out. The first such derailment of the network’s DNC analysis came upon returning from commercial break just past 12:20 a.m. Eastern when…

CBS Hails Hillary’s ‘Steadiness,’ Use of ‘Fight Song'; ‘Moved’ By Her Repeating ‘Strength and Together’

Curtis Houck | July 29, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Striking a different tone than the lukewarm reactions by ABC and NBC to Hillary Clinton’s DNC speech late Thursday night, CBS enthusiastically praised her “steadiness,” intro music choice of This Is My Fight Song and admitted they were “moved by how many times she said ‘strength’ and ‘together.’” If the gushing praise wasn’t enough, CBS…

‘Here We Are!’ Giggly ABC Loses It ‘This One Historic Moment’ with ‘Grandma’ Hillary

Curtis Houck | July 28, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Opening their Thursday night coverage of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), ABC’s voice-over announcer couldn’t help but produce one last gushing pump-up video as he proclaimed “here we are” for “[t]his one historic moment in front of America” and the on-air personalities applauded Chelsea Clinton emphasizing Hillary as a grandmother.…

Watch ABC’s David Muir Flip-Flop After Ruling Hillary’s ‘Unknown to So Many’ People

Curtis Houck | July 28, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In an embarrassing display of flip-flopping, ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir seemingly backtracked Thursday night on a claim from two days earlier that Hillary Clinton was “still so unknown to many in this country” to more appropriately ruling that “but she knows, this is a country divided” that has “very strong opinion[s] about her…

MRC’s Brent Bozell Calls Out ‘Preposterous’ Liberal Panelist Over Denial of DNC Protesters

Curtis Houck | July 28, 2016

See more in the NB Staff post on the NewsBusters blog. Media Research Center President Brent Bozell made his latest Fox Business Network (FBN) appearance on Thursday afternoon’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast and held little back as he called out liberal panelist Richard Fowler for his “preposterous” argument that the need to hype vocal protesters inside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was much…

Andrea Mitchell Thinks Obama Is Best Presidential Speechwriter Since Lincoln

Curtis Houck | July 28, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. If the all-star fawning by MSNBC personalities such as Brian Williams and Chris Matthews over President Obama’s DNC speech wasn’t enough, former McCain/Palin campaign manager Steve Schmidt ruled Thursday night that the speech was “one of the most extraordinary political speeches ever given by anyone at any time” and NBC News correspondent/MSNBC…

Matthews, Williams Lose It Over ‘Wonderful’ Obama; ‘We Will Not See His Kind Again’

Curtis Houck | July 28, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The crew at MSNBC late Wednesday were locked and loaded to respond to President Barack Obam’s speech to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and didn’t disappoint as breaking news anchor Brian Williams informed everyone that “we will not see his kind again” before Rachel Maddow ruled that “[t]here’s nothing else like him” while Hardball…

Networks Go Crazy for ‘Suburban Dad’ Tim Kaine’s ‘Spanish Lesson’ in DNC Speech

Curtis Houck | July 28, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Despite it drawing nowhere near the same levels of enthusiasm that other speeches drew in the 2016 Democratic National Convention (DNC) thus far, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC went into full spin mode late Wednesday hailing vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine’s personality as a “suburban dad” whose “extraordinary” Spanish-…

Samantha Bee Claims She’s an ‘Independent,’ Ignores Criticism About Show, ‘Salty Language’

Curtis Houck | July 27, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Full Frontal host Samantha Bee joined the set of Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour to promote her TBS show and in the process, she claimed to be an “independent” despite being “excited for Hillary” and defended her show’s near constant use of “salty language” despite a drove of critics (which she argued she ignores). Co-host Gwen Ifill first broached…

Joy Reid: ‘Hillary Clinton Is Going to Teach Us’ a Lesson on Sexism in This Election

Curtis Houck | July 27, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While the early Wednesday morning portion of MSNBC’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) coverage wasn’t quite the spectacle it was from the day before, AM Joy host Joy Reid provided two noteworthy instances denouncing Hillary Clinton critics as sexist who complain about her not wearing skirts and predicted that she’s “going to teach us” a…