Curtis Houck
NB Podcast: Lefty Media Desperate to Make Fetch Happen on Abortion
The liberal media are desperate to motivate their base to turn out and vote in November to stem a red wave from sweeping the country from House and Senate races down to the state and local levels. As associate editor Nick Fondacaro and I discussed on Monday’s show, it’s the latest manufactured narrative to steer public discourse away from the economy, gas prices, inflation, and even the…
NewsBusters Podcast: Media Fractured on Biden's Student Loan Bailout
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I examine the media's scattered coverage of President Biden's constitutionally dubious student loan bailouts as different factions voice outrage. We also speak with NewsBusters research director Scott Whitlock about the lack of coverage of the anniversary of the botch withdrawal from Afghanistan, which killed 13…
NewsBusters Podcast: Media Brush Redistricting Errors Under the Rug
On this edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I breakdown a new NewsBusters study of the media’s silence about how Census Bureau errors largely hurt red state representation. We also look at Snopes playing word games with misleading “fact checks” about lies against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and more on Brian Stelter leaving CNN.
NewsBusters Podcast: Stelter Leaves CNN by Proving Why He Was Axed
Video editor Bill D’Agostino and I were at the helm for boss Tim Graham for Monday’s show, which we hit the ground running on by reminiscing Brian Stelter’s infamous tenure at CNN and breaking down the final episode of Reliable Sources.
MRC’s Houck Tees Off on Liberal Media Minimizing Threat to Kavanaugh
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck returned early Tuesday to the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream to call out the liberal media’s burying of the failed plot to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and how attacks on pro-lifers signal a dangerous escalation in political rhetoric.
NewsBusters Podcast: The Prime Time Riot Special Fails to Impress
Democrats talked all the networks (except Fox News) into a breathless hearing (or retelling) of January 6. But it felt like a summer rerun.
MRC’s Houck Slams the Liberal Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Crusade on Guns
Appearing on the early Saturday/late Friday edition of the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck took on the best and worst in the liberal media, slamming the liberal media for their “misinformation” campaign on guns with hyperbolic rhetoric that “doesn’t accomplish anything.”
NewsBusters Podcast: Fact-Checking the Left’s Shameful Lies on Guns
NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick Fondacaro and I assumed the helm for Friday’s show and, following a heavy week for the country following Tuesday’s deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, we spent the episode doing a deep dive on the various liberal media narratives that immediately came to the surface.
NewsBusters Podcast: The Ghoulish Arguments Against Pro-Lifers
In this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I are joined by special guest Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life. Together we discuss the ghoulish arguments against the pro-life movement and dispel them. We examine the nonsense from the insufferable cast of The View, such as Whoopi Goldberg claiming “it doesn’t matter” when an unborn child gets their…
NewsBusters Podcast: Saying Bye to Psaki as Abortion Debate Heats Up
Filling in again for boss Tim Graham but reunited with my usual fill-in co-host Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro, we continued our focus Wednesday on the liberal media’s systemic aversion to facts when it comes to the abortion debate. After sharing our latest study on pro-abortion versus pro-life voices, I spent a few minutes reflecting on the end of an era with Jen Psaki’s departure from the…
NewsBusters Podcast: ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ to Abortion Terrorism
With Tim Graham and Nick Fondacaro away today, I flew solo as host of the show following an extremely busy news weekend. We focused on the liberal media’s sudden change in tone when it comes to threats against political organizations and public officials in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court opinion on abortion, including terrorism against a Wisconsin pro-life group over the weekend.
NewsBusters Podcast: Kayleigh McEnany on How to Take on the Media
For the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we talked to Kayleigh McEnany -- former White House press secretary, current co-host of the Fox News show Outnumbered, and author of the book For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond.
NewsBusters Podcast: WashPost Loses Their WashPoo Over GOP and 1/6
Sunday's Washington Post looked like a partisan rag with a collection of hit pieces (and a cartoon) on McCarthy and his "humiliating pilgrimage" to Mar-a-Lago to make nice with the former president after the GOP anger subsided. He would be a terrible speaker, they insisted, and would cause more "debacles" like this.
NewsBusters Podcast: Jussie Smollett and Cheap Gas Go Bye, Bye
Closing out another incredibly busy news week, NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick Fondacaro and I kicked off Friday’s NewsBusters Podcast with some gloating over the sentencing of Jussie Smollett — the far-left actor who faked a hate crime on a January 2019 Chicago night in subzero temperatures — and the liberal media’s complicity in his lies. We were then joined by NewsBusters associate…