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.

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…

Krauthammer, Special Report Panel Clobber Obama Over Spread of ISIS

Curtis Houck | May 22, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The Thursday panel on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier took on the issue of the Obama administration’s so-called policy in addressing ISIS and blasted the President for maintaining that the U.S. and its allies are not losing the fight against the Islamic extremist group despite the seizures this week of Ramadi in Iraq and…

ABC, CBS Continue to Omit Criticism of Obama as ISIS Seizes Palmyra

Curtis Houck | May 21, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As the Islamic terrorist group ISIS seized Ramadi earlier this week and now the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra, the major broadcast networks have largely declined to even mention any criticism of President Obama and his so-called policy in dealing with ISIS and Thursday night was no exception as ABC and CBS declined to raise that point of view…

CBS, NBC Punt on News That First Batch of Hillary’s E-Mails Will Soon Be Released

Curtis Houck | May 21, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Thursday, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and NBC Nightly News showed no interest in informing their viewers that the State Department will soon be releasing the first batch of e-mails that Hillary Clinton turned over following the uncovering of her private e-mail server. Purportedly to be 850 pages in size, the first batch will…

Networks Ignore Obama Pushing ‘Serious Threat’ of Global Warming Days After Fall of Ramadi

Curtis Houck | May 20, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC showed no interest in covering on Wednesday night the optics of President Obama touting global warming as a “serious threat” to graduates of the Coast Guard Academy days after the Iraqi city of Ramadi fell to ISIS. While the networks avoided this story, the Fox News Channel (FNC) program Special Report…

ABC, CBS Skip Rand Paul Launching New Filibuster on Patriot Act

Curtis Houck | May 20, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The Wednesday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News ignored the news that Republican Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Rand Paul (Ky.) launched a new marathon speech on the Senator floor hours earlier in protest of the federal government’s collection of phone records. While ABC and CBS failed to cover this story, NBC…

CBS, NBC Ignore Charges Being Filed Against Gyrocopter Guy; ABC Touts His Liberal Agenda

Curtis Houck | May 20, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted liberal activist and Florida postal worker Douglas Hughes on a total of six felony and misdemeanor charges in relation to his April 15 landing of gyropcopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol that, if convicted, could result in up to a nine-and-half-year prison sentence. When it came to the major…

Networks Spin for Hillary After Presser; Pat Themselves on Back for Asking ‘Tough New Questions’

Curtis Houck | May 19, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following Hillary Clinton’s decision to take questions from the press for the first time in over three weeks, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all covered the story on their Tuesday evening newscasts and, once again, were all too happy to spin for the Democratic presidential candidate. While all three networks mentioned a federal judge’s…

MSNBC’s Roberts: Hillary Was ‘Great On the Fly’ Answering Questions

Curtis Houck | May 19, 2015

See more in Connor Williams's post on the NewsBusters blog. Following Hillary Clinton’s first time engaging with the press in nearly a month, MSNBC predictably cheered her performance. Evidently 28 days is not enough of an opportunity to prepare for questions, because Thomas Roberts – host of MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts – lauded her brief few minutes with the press: “She was pretty great on…

With No Time to Criticize Obama on ISIS, CBS & NBC Hype Obama’s New Twitter Account

Curtis Houck | May 18, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While Monday’s editions of the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News refused to criticize the Obama administration on ISIS after the fall of Ramadi, the pair did devote time to hyping President Obama’s opening of an official Twitter account (to go along with his campaign account). In the case of the CBS Evening News, the story received both a…