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.

NBC Skimps on Report V.A. Paid $142 Million in Bonuses Amid Scandal-Ridden 2014

Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday night, NBC Nightly News neglected to inform its viewers of a new report concerning the scandal-ridden Department of Veterans Affairs and the $142 million it paid out in bonuses to employees (including some who were facing discipline and/or recently fired). Compiled by the House Veterans Affairs Committee, the report stated that…

ABC, NBC Cheer ‘Fierce,’ ‘Dramatic Divisions’ in GOP Field After Debate on Illegal Immigration

Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The Wednesday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News each provided their own wrap-ups of the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate from the night before, but the theme was predictably similar as both networks spun the event as illustrating “fierce opposition” and “dramatic divisions” within the GOP on apparently…

CBS’s Charlie Rose Appears Baffled GOPers Leveled ‘a Lot of Attacks on Hillary’ in Debate

Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Filling in for Scott Pelley on Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, Charlie Rose provided a wrap-up of Tuesday’s Fox Business Networks Republican presidential debate and seemed exasperated when he wondered to Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson “why” did the GOP candidates level “a lot of attacks on Hillary Clinton.” Prior to Rose’s baffling…

ABC’s Nightline Skewers GOP Debate as ‘Reality Show where the Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher’

Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Without a hint of irony, the most superficial network news show in ABC’s Nightline mocked Tuesday’s Fox Business Network Republican debate on their early Wednesday morning installment as nothing more than a “reality show” along the lines of The Bachelor and Survivor “where the stakes couldn’t be higher.” Leading off the show, correspondent…

Ted Cruz Excoriates Liberal ‘Mainstream Media’ for Illegal Immigration Coverage

Curtis Houck | November 10, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following his lambasting of the liberal media and the CNBC moderators during the last Republican debate on October 28, Republican Senator Ted Cruz took his latest swipe at the “mainstream media” in Tuesday’s Fox Business Network event for their coverage of illegal immigration and maligning those opposing amnesty. Cruz started his takedown by…

Megyn Kelly Slams CNBC Moderators Before FBN Debate; We’ll Hear ‘a Robust, Substantive Exchange’

Curtis Houck | November 10, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Just prior to Tuesday’s main Republican presidential debate on the Fox Business Network, Kelly File host Meygn Kelly panned the moderators from October 28's CNBC debate and predicted that she’s “hoping that we are going to hear what we thought we are going to hear in the last debate, which is, you know, a robust, substantive exchange over one…

Jeb Supporter on CNN Laments Lindsey Graham’s ‘Passionate Voice’ Being Excluded from Debate

Curtis Houck | November 10, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Offering analysis of the first Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate on the 8:00 p.m. Eastern edition of CNN’s AC360, CNN political commentator and Jeb Bush supporter Ana Navarro lamented that Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and his “passionate voice” was excluded from the undercard event. Asked by host Anderson Cooper for her…

On MSNBC, Grayson Compares Ted Cruz to Miley Cyrus; ‘Twerking Every Right-Winger in Sight’

Curtis Houck | November 10, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Speaking with host Chris Hayes on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s All In, Democratic Congressman and 2016 Senate candidate Alan Grayson (Fl.) made a crude joke in comparing Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to Miley Cyrus as he’s “twerking every right-winger in sight.” After Grayson invoked Cruz in context of the 2013 government…

CNN’s Rachel Nichols Compares Missouri Football Team to Jackie Robinson

Curtis Houck | November 9, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Discussing on Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360 the resignation of the president at the University of Missouri, CNN sports anchor Rachel Nichols compared the Missouri football team’s promise that it wouldn’t practice until the school’s president resigned over an alleged string of racial incidents at the school to the late Jackie Robinson taking a…

ABC, CBS Ignore Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear New Case on ObamaCare

Curtis Houck | November 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on NewsBusters blog. On Friday night, two of the three major broadcast networks saw no interest in telling their viewers that the Supreme Court of the United States had decided to accept another major case on the future of ObamaCare as the high court will hear arguments pertaining to the law’s contraception mandate. Surprisingly, NBC Nightly News not only covered it…