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.

NewsNation’s Leland Vittert Torches Chuck Schumer Over His War on Zyn, Embrace of Pot

Curtis Houck | February 1, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! In contrast to Wednesday’s Good Morning America (GMA) eagerly promoting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declaring war on Zyn nicotine pouches, NewsNation and On Balance host Leland Vittert took Schumer to task on Tuesday for his hypocrisy of being a supporter of marijuana but not Zyn. Using a 2021 clip of Schumer tout…

‘Do Not Count Her Out’; CBS, Lefty Authors Gush Over ‘Badass’ ‘Tough’ Fani Willis

Curtis Houck | February 1, 2024

Check out the link to the full post soon from NewsBusters! Monday’s CBS Mornings featured longtime journalists Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman, the co-authors of the new anti-Trump book Find Me the Votes, focused specifically on the Trump-Georgia case. Not surprisingly, the authors and co-hosts not only reassured viewers the case against former President Trump and his co-defendants won’t fall…

CBS, NBC Censor DOJ Probe into The Squad’s Cori Bush for Alleged Misuse of Donor Money

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Between Tuesday and Wednesday, CBS and NBC have ignored their announcement of a Justice Department probe into far-left Congresswoman and Squad member Cori Bush (D-MO) on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. The probe, which reportedly concerns using campaign funds to pay her now-husband to be her bodyguard, is a scandal that…

‘With No Evidence’; ABC, CBS Melt Down Over GOP Impeaching Mayorkas on Border Crisis

Curtis Houck | January 31, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On the liberal broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the adversarial rhetoric continued to ratchet up on Wednesday from Tuesday morning and evening against the House GOP’s efforts to impeach Biden Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis as the networks used their morning news shows to screech there’s “no evidence…

Nets Fret ‘Heated Arguments,’ ‘Rare Step’ to Impeach Mayorkas Has Border Deal ‘In Jeopardy’

Curtis Houck | January 30, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! After having been indifferent toward the House Republican push to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC turned up the kvetching on Monday night. That continued Tuesday on their flagship morning news shows with gripes about the “splitscreen” of a “historic” impeachment while the Senate’s “work…

‘It’s Bad!’; Doocy, Kirby Throw Down Over U.S. Funding U.N. Group With Alleged Hamas Ties

Curtis Houck | January 26, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Friday’s White House press briefing went for 86 minutes, but it had fireworks on everything from the border crisis to climate to the Israel-Hamas war. Most notably, Fox’s Peter Doocy was only one of two reporters to ask the National Security Council’s John Kirby over the bombshell that roughly a dozen United Nations Relief and Works…

ABC, NBC Newscasts Ignore MASSIVE Standoff Between Biden, Abbott at the TX Border

Curtis Houck | January 25, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! After Monday’s Supreme Court ruling vacating a lower court ruling that had allowed Texas to place razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border without inference from the Biden Border Patrol, the flagship morning and evening newscasts on ABC and NBC have moved on from the border showdown, even as tensions rise with Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX)…

Is Water Wet? Nets Swoon in Wonderment Over Leftist UAW Union Endorsing Biden

Curtis Houck | January 25, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Is water wet? Is the sky blue? What’s the logo of Target? These questions all seem obvious, but the question of who would receive the 2024 presidential endorsement of the far-left United Auto Workers was big news for the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As such, they marveled at the “powerful”…

NBC’s O’Donnell, April Ryan Lob KJP Softballs on Abortion, Diversity Hires

Curtis Houck | January 24, 2024

Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Yes, Fox’s Peter Doocy got his turn during Wednesday’s White House press briefing and pressed Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the Biden border crisis and a Tuesday remark seeming to embrace election denialism. But before that, the briefing featured pathetic softballs from the likes of NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell on abortion and theGrio’s…

Doocy Blasts KJP Over Biden Engaging in Election Denialism at Virginia Rally

Curtis Houck | January 24, 2024