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.

Surprise: ABC's Raddatz Slams Obama for Mocking ISIS Threat as Guys in 'Pickup Trucks'

Curtis Houck | January 13, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. ABC’s post-State of the Union coverage featured a number of predictably liberal takes on Tuesday, but some opposing viewpoints were able to break through with one criticism being chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz slamming the President’s characterization of many ISIS fighters as “guys in pickup trucks” because those same men “…

ABC, CNN Hail ‘Exclamation Point’ SOTU from 'Forceful' Obama; ‘Didn’t Rub Salt’ in GOP ‘Wounds’

Curtis Houck | January 13, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Amid the deluge of post-State of the Union coverage Tuesday night, there was a similar litany of praise for President Obama’s final such speech with notable highlights coming from ABC as contributor Donna Brazile touted it as “a good exclamation point” for his presidency and correspondent David Wright spinning it as the President “pleading for…

Liberal Historian Beschloss: ‘So Poignant’ Obama Admitted He Couldn’t Bridge Partisan Divide

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Moments after President Obama’s final State of the Union on Tuesday night, liberal historian Michael Beschloss was a panelist on PBS and fawned over how the President was “so poignant” in lamenting during his speech that he hasn’t “been able to bridge the divide” while in office. Host Judy Woodruff turned to Beschloss and pointed out that…

NBC’s Chuck Todd: ‘Timing’ of Iran Situation ‘Couldn’t Be Worse’ for Obama Before SOTU

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. NBC News political director and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd lamented in the final moments before President Obama’s final State of the Union Tuesday night that the “timing” of Iran’s seizure of 10 Sailors from the U.S. Navy “couldn't be worse for the President” as he went onto tout the Iran nuclear deal in his address. After colleague…

CBS: Obama Taking ‘Valedictory Lap’ Offering ‘Message of Hope’ Compared to ‘Fear’ from GOP

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Prior to President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley gushed that the President “will be taking what you might call a valedictory lap” as he starts his final year in office while Face the Nation host John Dickerson ruled that the President offers “a message of hope” compared to one that’s “…

ABC, NBC Punt on Bad Obama Polls Ahead of SOTU; Touts Need to ‘Recapture the Hope and Change’

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the Tuesday evening newscasts before President Obama’s final State of the Union address, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News failed to mention any of the poor polling numbers for President Obama on a variety of issues but instead hailed the President’s “big themes” in a speech “trying to recapture the hope and change of when he…

Andrea Mitchell Frets: Iran Seizing Sailors Has Created ‘Frantic’ Scene for Obama’s SOTU

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Hours before President Obama’s final State of the Union address, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell took to the airwaves of Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News to complain that Iran seizing 10 U.S. Sailors had created a “frantic” situation for the President that “could not have happened at the worst time.”…

Megyn Kelly Obliterates Liberal Media, White House for Moving on from ISIS Attack on Philly Cop

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Leading off Monday’s Kelly File on the Fox News Channel (FNC), host Megyn Kelly took the liberal media and the Obama administration to task for having all but moved on from the January 7 attack by an ISIS-inspired Muslim on a Philadelphia police officer with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest downplaying the event hours earlier to ABC’s…

Fusion Forum Poses Questions to Hillary on ‘White Terrorism,’ White Privilege, Reparations

Curtis Houck | January 11, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. If the sex education question to socialist Senator Bernie Sanders didn’t already set the tone in Monday night’s Iowa Brown and Black Forum on Fusion, the questions grew even more asinine during Hillary Clinton’s portion when questions on race ranged from hyping the dangers of “white terrorism and extremism” to what white privilege meant to her…

Questioner at Fusion Forum Demands Bernie Defund Sex Ed Programs That Mention Abstinence

Curtis Houck | January 11, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During Monday night’s Iowa Brown and Black Forum on Fusion, socialist Senator Bernie Sanders received questions on issues like education, gun control, and immigration, but also faced a rather bizarre one when a college student stepped to the microphone to ask Sanders if he would defund taxpayer funding for sex education programs in schools that…