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.

Wolf Blitzer Raves about this ‘Amazing Week Here in the United States’

Curtis Houck | June 26, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following President Obama’s statement on Supreme Court’s ruling Friday morning to legalize gay marriage in all 50 states, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer couldn’t help but marvel at how “years from now, historians will write about this week – amazing week here in the United States” as President Obama saw favorable rulings on ObamaCare and gay marriage in…

ABC’s Moran: Reaction to Gay Marriage Decision Was a ‘Deep Cheer’ ‘Like a Spark of Fire’

Curtis Houck | June 26, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During ABC’s Special Report on the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage, correspondent Terry Moran gushed that the reaction to the ruling by the crowd gathered outside the Court was akin to “a spark of fire as we understood what was actually done here” as “those interns ran across the plaza.” Asked for the mood outside the Court…

Networks Yawn at News IRS Destroyed 24,000 Lois Lerner E-Mails

Curtis Houck | June 26, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Thursday night, the major broadcast networks ignored a new development in the IRS scandal that the agency erased 422 backup tapes and in turn destroyed 24,000 of embattled former official Lois Lerner. With ABC, CBS, and NBC on the sidelines, the Fox News Channel’s Special Report offered a full report on Thursday’s House Oversight Committee…

Nets Cheer ‘Historic Ruling’ on ObamaCare, Hail Chief Justice Roberts as ‘Conservative’

Curtis Houck | June 25, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in favor of President Obama in the ObamaCare subsidy case, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were out in full force during their Thursday evening newscasts to cheer the “historic ruling” and labeled Chief Justice John Roberts as a “conservative” after having “rescued” ObamaCare “from a…

NBC Nightly News Runs ObamaCare Puff Piece Disguised as a News Story

Curtis Houck | June 25, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As part of their coverage of the ObamaCare subsidy ruling on Thursday, NBC Nightly News aired a rather favorable report from senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing on the so-called successes of the health care law with only a brief allusion to an opposing viewpoint. Anchor Lester Holt began the segment by proclaiming that: “[A]cross…

MSNBC’s Wagner Bemoans Scalia’s ‘Deeply Emotional, Partisan Core’ in ObamaCare Dissent

Curtis Houck | June 25, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Despite getting a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the ObamaCare case King v. Burwell, MSNBC’s Now host Alex Wagner couldn’t help but take issue with Justice Antonin Scalia as a Justice and the “bitterness and the vitriol” he employed in his dissent and lamented that it “revealed a deeply emotional, partisan core that informs…

CBS Touts Obama Going after ‘Unruly’ Heckler at White House LGBT Event

Curtis Houck | June 25, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Wednesday’s CBS Evening News gave President Barack Obama a boost during one of its second-half news briefs by touting his handling of a transgender, illegal immigrant heckler who complained about deportations during a White House event promoting LGBT Pride Month. In a tease to the brief, anchor Scott Pelley gushed: “President Obama smacks down…

MSNBC Guest: Americans Are ‘Infected’ with Country’s ‘Legacy of Racial Inequality’

Curtis Houck | June 24, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While appearing on the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s All In, guest and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson argued during a discussion with host Chris Hayes about the Confederate flag that Americans “have all been infected by this legacy of racial inequality” and “haven't learned how to manage the shame and the guilt” of slavery and…

Networks Barely Acknowledge Bobby Jindal’s Entrance into the 2016 Presidential Race

Curtis Houck | June 24, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal became the 12th Republican on Wednesday to join the 2016 Republican presidential field, the top English and Spanish-language network evening newscasts all but dodged Jindal’s decision by providing a total of 54 seconds across English networks ABC, CBS, and NBC. As for the Spanish-language networks,…

Megyn Kelly, Guest Engage in Epic Duel over SPLC’s ‘Women Against Islam’ Hate List

Curtis Houck | June 24, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During Tuesday’s edition of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel, host Megyn Kelly and liberal syndicated radio host Richard Fowler spared over a list from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that included drawings of women who have denounced radical Islam that include conservative authors Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. At…