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 TimesThe Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, TownhallWashington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington PostThe 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.

Curtis Houck | October 29, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the second of three segments on Thursday reporting on the fallout from Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, NBC Nightly News touted an editorial by The New York Times calling on Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) to drop out of the 2016 field.  National correspondent Peter Alexander chronicled the post-debate movement among the…
Curtis Houck | October 29, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Just a few hours after their atrocious performance in the third Republican presidential debate, two of the co-moderators from CNBC joined MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to double down on their liberal stances with John Harwood refusing to admit he lied regarding Senator Marco Rubio’s tax plan while Sharon Epperson trashed Carly Fiorina and how…
Curtis Houck | October 29, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Syndicated columnist and FNC contributor Charles Krauthammer was Bill O’Reilly’s first guest on the 11:00 p.m. Eastern edition of The O’Reilly Factor after Wednesday’s CNBC debate and tore into the moderators for a “most appalling performance” in which they were “obnoxious,” “interrupting,” and “disorganized.” Asked by O’Reilly for his “…
Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In what was an exceptionally bad night for the liberal media and the debate moderators during Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) assailed co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for dedicating a line of questioning to whether daily fantasy football websites should face regulation by the federal government. …
Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Less than an hour after trashing the Florida newspaper The Sun-Sentinel and CNBC Republican presidential debate co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for bolstering the well-known fact that the liberal media is biased against conservatives, Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.) returned for more on Wednesday night as he shellacked them as “the ultimate super PAC”…
Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate on CNBC, Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.) excoriated the Florida newspaper The Sun-Sentinel and debate co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for raising questions about his young age and calls for him to resign from the Senate due to missed votes as examples of “a double standard” and “bias that exists in the…
Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. With much of the political world tuned into CNBC for the first Republican presidential debate, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews ran wild on Wednesday and fessed up to the fact that Hillary Clinton has “got allies in the media” and not “some evil forces” out to attack Clinton as some liberals believe. Prior to Matthews’s admission, MSNBC…
Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Continuing to come unhinged and flash his liberal colors in the first CNBC Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, co-moderator John Harwood pontificated that President Obama has made the United States economy “the strongest in the world.” What prompted Harwood’s outburst was George Pataki answering a question about the Federal Reserve…
Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As part of his appearance on the Tuesday edition of Fox News Channel’s The Kelly File promoting his new book The Immortal Nicholas, The Blaze founder/host Glenn Beck and host Megyn Kelly slammed Melissa Harris-Perry for her now viral comment condemning the use of the term “hard worker” because she believed its demeaning to slaves and working…