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.

Chris Matthews Equates GOP’s ‘Lock Her Up’ Chant to What You See in Argentina or Venezuela

Curtis Houck | July 21, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As has been customary, the level of craziness emanating from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews grows exponentially by the late evening and early Thursday morning was no different as he ruled that the Republican National Convention (RNC) chanting “lock her up” concerning Hillary Clinton was akin to what one would hear in Buenos Aires, Argentina or Caracas…

ABC, NBC Slam ‘Miscalculated’ Cruz; ‘Big Mistake for His Career,’ Could Be Reason Trump Loses

Curtis Houck | July 21, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The knives were out on ABC and NBC late Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in reaction to Ted Cruz’s speech not endorsing Donald Trump as their reactions varied from Cruz having “badly miscalculated” to suggesting that Cruz would be blamed in November if Trump doesn’t win the general election. ABC turned immediately to…

Out-of-Control MSNBC: ‘Hatred,’ ‘Vitriol’ Toward Clintons Is Why They’re Not Transparent

Curtis Houck | July 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Somehow, MSNBC felt on Wednesday night that it needed even more of a reason to show their undying commitment and love to the Clintons that they brought on biographer David Maraniss of The Washington Post during the Republican National Convention (RNC) to blame the “hatred” and “vitriol” from Republicans for why the Clintons aren’t transparent…

MSNBC Guest April Ryan: Steve King Is ‘Stunted Mentally,’ Blasts GOP as Not Colorblind

Curtis Houck | July 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Two days after a tense exchange on MSNBC involving race and American history, American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan returned to the network’s set on Wednesday night to declare her opponent from Monday in Republican Congressman Steve King (Iowa) is “stunted mentally to be honest with you.” Ryan went on for nearly two minutes…

Brokaw, Schieffer Bemoan GOP's ‘Big Hate for Hillary,’ Blaming Her for ‘Everything’

Curtis Houck | July 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’s Bob Schieffer appeared near the conclusion of the hour-long Republican National Convention (RNC) specials on their respective networks and after they whined about the “dark” and “divisive” first night, they went off the rails to complain about Republicans “work[ing] up a big hate for Hillary” and “accused of…

Networks, MSNBC Spend Almost Six Minutes Promoting ‘Scrappy’ Code Pink Protester

Curtis Houck | July 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. When a lone protester from the anti-American, far-left group Code Pink tried to make noise in the crowd at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC tag-teamed with MSNBC to spent nearly six minutes showing and discussing the “scrappy” protester. ABC led the way with two minutes…

Mitchell: Clinton Scandals ‘Will Never Be Solved’ as ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Want

Curtis Houck | July 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC host, NBC News Clinton campaign correspondent and senior Clinton apologist Andrea Mitchell offered her latest Clinton spin on Tuesday during the Republican National Convention (RNC) by whining that the Clinton scandals ranging from Whitewater to Hillary’s e-mail scandal “will never be resolved to the satisfaction of the conspiracy…

Matthews: ‘Friendliness’ of RNC Attendees Is ‘Overwhelming,’ Doubts Dems Will Be Nice to GOPers

Curtis Houck | July 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Early in MSNBC’s Tuesday night coverage of the Republican National Convention (RNC), Hardball host Chris Matthews took a brief shot at MSNBC’s parent company Comcast buying them from General Electric (GE) five years ago and admitted the RNC attendees have been “incredibly friendly” but doubted Democrats will do the same at their convention to…

Joy Reid Admits It Felt ‘Hostile,’ ‘Weird’ to Be ‘Person of Color’ at ‘Not Inclusive’ RNC

Curtis Houck | July 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s AM Joy host Joy Reid bemoaned in Tuesday’s early hours at the Republican National Convention (RNC) that Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech was unfortunately “the first of the night that didn’t have this subtext...that brown people are dangerous” to the point that Reid felt uncomfortable being around the RNC that she found to be so “not…

Bee Compares GOP Platform to Westboro Baptist Church, Pence Sending Indiana Back to 1952

Curtis Houck | July 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the first of unfortunately two shows for the week, TBS’s Full Frontal host Samantha Bee compared the substance of the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC) platform to views held by the Westboro Baptist Church and took predictable shots smearing Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence as anti-woman and backward thinking. Barely three…