Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

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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.

Ellen Thanks Bernie Sanders for ‘Damn E-Mails’ Comment; ‘Exact Thing That People Are Sick of’

Curtis Houck | October 15, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Liberal celebrity talk show host Ellen DeGeneres continued to dismiss Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal during her eponymous show on Thursday as she repeatedly thanked socialist Senator and Clinton opponent Bernie Sanders for railing in the Democratic debate against the attention devoted to Clinton’s “damn e-mails.” “I'll tell you, I think what…

NBC Cheers Feminist Mag’s Campaign to Photoshop Men from Pictures of Elected Officials

Curtis Houck | October 15, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Closing out Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, the evening newscast found it pertinent to tout a new campaign by the British edition of the liberal feminist magazine Elle to photoshop men out of pictures of elected officials in an effort to promote the global need for more women in office. Anchor Lester Holt led into correspondent Stephanie Gosk’s…

MSNBC’s O’Donnell Oozes: Hillary’s Debate Went ‘So Perfectly’ She Could Have ‘Planned It All’

Curtis Houck | October 15, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Leading off the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell gave his best Chris Matthews “thrill up my leg” impression as he went overboard smiling and giggling over how the debate “went so well” for Hillary Clinton and “so perfectly that, at times, it was as if she had planned the whole thing” down to the questions and…

Nets Go Berserk for Hillary ‘Commanding the Stage Last Night'; ‘Retaken Control’ of the Race

Curtis Houck | October 14, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered on Wednesday night more analysis of the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the night before that can only be summed up a complete lovefest for Hillary Clinton for having “command[ed] the stage” and “retaken control of the conversation” as she goes “on the offensive.” Not…

No Joke: MSNBC Compares 2016 Dems to Sandwiches; ‘It’s Like Picking Something Off a Menu’

Curtis Houck | October 14, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In another example of the media doing something that’s silly and bordering on the absurd, Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC Live with Kate Snow ended with a three-minute-plus segment comparing each of the 2016 Democratic presidential candidates to different types of sandwiches with Hillary Clinton being a Subway sandwich and Jim Webb resembling an…

Van Jones Compares Hillary to Beyoncé, Proclaims Black Lives Matter Activists ‘Won This Debate’

Curtis Houck | October 14, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Opining on how he thought the first 2016 Democratic debate unfolded on Tuesday night, CNN political commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones compared the “flawless” Hillary Clinton to Beyoncé and touted his belief that activists in the Black Lives Matter movement were the true winners of the debate. Speaking first of the…

CNN’s Borger Hypes Hillary Did ‘Extraordinarily Well’ in Debate; ‘So Adept’ at Shaping Herself

Curtis Houck | October 13, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the first minutes after the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night, CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger sang the praises of Hillary Clinton for having performed “extraordinarily well” and made herself “so adept at making herself the candidate of both experience and change.” When Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer…

Bernie Sanders Attacks the Media for Talking about Hillary’s ‘Damn E-Mails’

Curtis Houck | October 13, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Rallying to the aid of fellow 2016 Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton during the first debate Tuesday night, Democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) angrily lamented the focus on Clinton’s e-mail scandal and berated the media for covering Clinton’s “damn e-mails.” After Clinton wiggled her way out moderator Anderson…

ABC, NBC Cheer ‘Relatable’ Hillary Before Debate; ‘Burden’ for Her ‘To Protect Her Front-Runner Status’

Curtis Houck | October 13, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday night ahead of the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News put forth their best efforts to paint a favorable scene for Hillary Clinton by touting her as “relatable” while “need[ing] to show voters a different side” as she shoulders the “burden” of trying “to protect her front-runner…

CNN Marvels at Hillary Aide Huma Abedin Checking Out the Stage; No Mention of Scandals

Curtis Houck | October 13, 2015

See more in the cross-post on NewsBusters blog. Just hours ahead of Tuesday’s 2016 Democratic presidential debate on CNN, the network was already in spin mode for Hillary Clinton down to the most minute detail as senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny marveled during The Situation Room at the sight of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin surveying the stage for Clinton to gather “a sense of what…