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.

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…

NBC Continues Media Push Blaming Flooding in Texas, Drought in California on Climate Change

Curtis Houck | May 28, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Continuing the media narrative that climate change is the cause of flooding in Texas, NBC Nightly News did its part on Thursday night in not only accomplishing that but also linking climate change to the drought in California and a “weather whiplash” that’s being seen across the country. Interim anchor Lester Holt began the segment by…

Ann Coulter Previews New Illegal Immigration Book; ‘This Is the One Debate You Cannot Hear in America’

Curtis Houck | May 28, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. New York Times best-selling author Ann Coulter stopped by Sean Hannity’s eponymous Fox News Channel (FNC) show on Wednesday night to preview her upcoming book Adios America and slammed both the government and news media for failing to provide “basic information about the people they are bringing into this country in order to change it into a…

Shock: NBC Ends Network Blackout on Clinton Shell Company Story

Curtis Houck | May 28, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The latest network blackout concerning one of the Clinton scandals came to an end on NBC Thursday as a segment on Today by correspondent Andrea Mitchell mentioned an Associated Press story from two days before exposing what appears to be a shell company run by former President Bill Clinton. While NBC broke its silence on the shell corporation…

Networks Neglect to Cover New EPA Regulations That Expand Control of Waterways

Curtis Houck | May 27, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday night, the major broadcast networks ignored a series of new regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the agency claims will better explain regulations in the Clean Water Act, but are seen by many as a power grab by the Obama administration to further control America’s waterways. While the story…

CBS, NBC Give Scant Coverage to Rick Santorum’s 2016 Presidential Announcement

Curtis Houck | May 27, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following Rick Santorum’s announcement late Wednesday that he will mount a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, CBS and NBC largely punted on news of a seventh Republican candidate entering the field with a combined 37 seconds of airtime on their Wednesday evening newscasts. Over on the Spanish-language networks, however, the…

ABC Touts Hillary Clinton Predicting Her Hair Won’t Turn White If Elected President

Curtis Houck | May 27, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In Wednesday’s edition of the liberal media spinning for Hillary Clinton, ABC’s World News Tonight chose not to mention any of the recent developments regarding the various Clinton scandals but instead promote her prediction that, unlike previous presidents, her hair would not turn white if she’s elected president. After previewing George…

FNC’s Megyn Kelly Blasts President Obama over Memorial Day Speech

Curtis Houck | May 27, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. At the top of Tuesday’s Kelly File on the Fox News Channel, host Megyn Kelly tore into President Obama and his remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day where “America's commander in chief celebrate[d] the absence of a major war, while his own top security advisers warn the American people directly that the danger right now is…

Appeals Court Deals Latest Blow to Obama’s Executive Amnesty; Networks Fail to Cover

Curtis Houck | May 26, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday night, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC neglected to mention news that the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled earlier in the day against President Obama’s executive amnesty and denied another request that the injunction on the plan should be lifted. While the networks ignored this story all together, the Fox News…

NBC’s Richard Engel Continues Tear Into Obama’s ‘Confused’ and ‘Self-Contradictory’ ISIS Strategy

Curtis Houck | May 22, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The morning after he appeared on multiple MSNBC and NBC programs to rip President Obama’s handling of ISIS, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel joined the Friday panel of MSNBC’s Morning Joe to continue his streak of tearing into the President for a “confused” and “self-contradictory” plan that “fights itself.” Also…