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.

Networks Ignore IRS Admitting Illegals Could Receive Back Taxes & EPA Study on Fracking

Curtis Houck | June 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In Thursday’s edition of stories ignored by the top English and Spanish networks, the six of them declined to report that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has admitted that illegal immigrants could apply for back taxes under President Obama’s amnesty plan as well as a report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that fracking does not…

ABC, NBC Give Meager Coverage to Rick Perry’s 2016 Presidential Launch

Curtis Houck | June 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry may have announced a second presidential campaign on Thursday afternoon, but viewers on the Thursday evening network newscasts may have missed the news altogether if not careful since the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC gave Perry less than a minute and a half of combined airtime. All told, ABC’s…

Networks Skip Latest on Clinton Scandals; Hype Higher Minimum Wage, Female Sex Pill Instead

Curtis Houck | June 3, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday evening, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC marked five days since any of networks last covered a Clinton scandal while they combined to ignore news that a Democratic member of Congress has called for an independent review of Clinton’s e-mails, a House committee hearing covered her e-mail scandal, and a report that Bill Clinton…

Networks Duck Rising ObamaCare Premiums, Bad Polls for Hillary and Obama

Curtis Houck | June 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday night, the major English and Spanish broadcast networks ignored news that health insurance premiums under ObamaCare are expected to go up in the next year with many topping out in the double digits following claims that the health care law would bring them down. In addition, the networks punted on a poll indicating that support for…

Chuck Todd to Lindsey Graham: Are Hispanics ‘Justified in Believing’ GOP ‘Doesn't Care About Them?’

Curtis Houck | June 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Reporting on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC News political director and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd hyped the size of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign with the rise in “vanity candidates” and wondered to GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham if “Hispanics are justified in believing the Republican Party doesn't care about…

Geraldo Rivera Likens Vince Vaughn to Timothy McVeigh

Curtis Houck | June 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The co-hosts of Fox News Channel’s The Five began Tuesday’s show with discussion of actor Vince Vaughn’s recent comments in support of gun rights and grew rather heated when first-time co-host Geraldo Rivera compared Vaughn to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Following co-host Greg Gutfeld’s opening commentary about Vaughn’s, the media’s…

Krauthammer Rips Obama on America’s Global Standing; ‘You Wonder...What Planet He's Living on’

Curtis Houck | June 1, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Appearing on the Monday edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer and host Bill O’Reilly tore into President Obama for stating that the U.S. is now “the most respected country on Earth” thanks to his administration with Krauthammer openly wondering “what planet he's living on.” Following a soundbite of Obama…

CBS’s Palmer Laments ‘Pain’ of Iran Sanctions; Kerry Injury Hurts ‘Dynamic’ of Nuclear Talks

Curtis Houck | June 1, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Charlie Rose and foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer bemoaned the impact of international sanctions on the Iranian economy with Palmer also fretting that Secretary of State John Kerry’s leg injury could hurt the “dynamic” of nuclear talks between the U.S., its allies, and Iran on a proposed deal…

CNBC’s Harwood Hits Rubio for Looking ‘Like a Schoolboy’ Compared to Hillary

Curtis Houck | May 29, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. CNBC Washington correspondent and the co-hosts of CNBC’s Squawk Box briefly discussed during Friday’s show the age difference between Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio that included Harwood knocking Rubio for “look[ing] like a schoolboy” compared to Clinton. Having just slammed the double standard being applied…

Katrina vanden Heuevel Suggests Money in Politics is Racist

Curtis Houck | May 29, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Appearing on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel suggested that money in politics is discriminatory toward African-Americans and has belittled their votes along with those of every American “in an age of impunity.” When first asked by host Lawrence O’Donnell for her thoughts about Jeb Bush’s…