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.

WADR: Halperin Corrects Heilemann on Delegate Math History

Curtis Houck | April 21, 2016

See more in P.J. Gladnick's post on the NewsBusters blog.

Matthews: Cruz Will Lose Nomination Then ‘End Up on the Radio’ Fighting Mark Levin

Curtis Houck | April 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Still recovering from a long night covering the New York primary results, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews resumed his recent streak of attacks on conservative talk radio host Mark Levin by suggesting on Wednesday that Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) will lose the GOP presidential nod so he can “end up on the radio duking it out with…

Hot Air Hammers MSNBC for Falsely Claiming Benghazi Cmte Is the 'Longest Running Investigation’

Curtis Houck | April 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Hot Air editor Jazz Shaw offered an excellent piece on Tuesday completely debunking the false claim put forth on the Friday edition of MSNBC’s All In from fill-in host Steve Kornacki that the House Select Committee on Benghazi is the “longest running investigation” of its kind. Hoping to use a bogus chart to bolster his fib, Kornacki stood in…

MSNBC’s Reid: Hillary Has Run for Decades Against the Media’s ‘Very Negative’ Coverage

Curtis Houck | April 20, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid was a panelist in the final hour of the network’s New York primary coverage in the midnight eastern hour Wednesday and astonishingly tried to claim that Hillary Clinton has had to “run essentially for the last 20 years against” the media’s “tide” of negative coverage. Reid’s comments came around the 12:07…

MSNBC Marvels at ‘Excited,’ ‘Boisterous’ Crowd at Hillary Clinton Victory Rally

Curtis Houck | April 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On multiple occasions throughout its New York Primary coverage late Tuesday night, MSNBC couldn’t help itself but ooze enthusiasm at the “excited,” “electric,” and “boisterous” crowd at Hillary Clinton’s victory rally in New York City not far from her campaign headquarters. In the moments after Clinton was projected to be the winner,…

Matthews Tangles with Sanders Chair Over ‘Very Personal’ Speech Transcript Criticism

Curtis Houck | April 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. A week after MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews spared with Sanders campaign chairman Jeff Weaver but later admitted that Sanders stokes his “erogenous zone,” the pair were at it again on Tuesday night as Matthews complained that Weaver was being “so tough” towards Hillary Clinton with “very personal” attacks on her lucrative paid speeches.…

NewsBusted [April 12, 2016]

Curtis Houck | April 18, 2016

TOPICS: -- Hillary Clinton -- Bernie Sanders -- Hugh Hefner -- Path to GOP nomination for John Kasich -- Nowruz (Iranian New Year) -- Iranian nuclear deal -- $15/hr minimum wage in California -- Geraldo Rivera being voted off Dancing with the Stars

Lefty Columnist Nichols: Cruz Is ‘Maybe Less’ Attractive for General Election Than Trump

Curtis Houck | April 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. A frequent guest on now-cancelled MSNBC program The Ed Show, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols appeared on MSNBC Monday afternoon and proclaimed that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “is no more attractive to the Republican establishment” than Donald Trump and “maybe less” so because he’d do worse geographically…

Nets Bow to Hillary, Clooney Over Claims Their Fundraisers Will Go Away If Citizens United Does

Curtis Houck | April 18, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday morning, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC fell in line and faithfully touted the promises of liberal actor George Clooney that his fundraisers for Democrats like Hillary Clinton will go away once they elect enough of them to ensure the Supreme Court overturns the Citizens United decision. Further, CBS This Morning used…

Gutfeld: Democratic Debate Was ‘So Depressing’ ‘Like a Rock Concert for Occupy Wall Street’

Curtis Houck | April 15, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In a break from the more traditional post-debate analysis routine, the Fox News Channel chose to award the cast of The Five its sole post-Democratic debate hour on Thursday and, of course, it featured humorous quips from co-host Greg Gutfeld. The quirky Gutfeld opined that, among many spit takes throughout the hour, the debate was more along…