NewsBusters Podcast: Blaming Trump's Hot Talk for His Foiled Assassins

September 16th, 2024 10:52 PM

The foiled second assassination attempt on Donald Trump wasn't uniformly treated as a serious security problem. We found major networks blaming Trump's hot talk on migrants and pets for his own assassins. They blamed him for not toning rhetoric down -- the flagrantly hostile networks! Curtis Houck explains how Sunday unfolded.

NB Podcast: LA Times’s Gushy Profile of ABC’s Davis Gave Away the Game

September 13th, 2024 10:21 PM

Sitting in on Friday for host and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I dove into an absurd Los Angeles Times profile celebrating ABC’s debate co-moderator Linsey Davis for, along with co-moderator David Muir, interjecting for so-called fact-checks of Donald Trump. 

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MRC’s Houck Sounds Off to FNC on Biden’s Disastrous ABC Interview

July 8th, 2024 11:35 AM

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck both began and ended the week on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night with Friday’s installment featuring a lead-off panel discussion of President Biden’s ABC interview with Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos with the presidency in peril thanks to Biden’s cognitive decline.

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MRC’s Houck, Tudor Dixon Team Up on FNC to Slam Regime Media, Biden WH

July 2nd, 2024 2:28 PM

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck made his third appearance in as many weeks Monday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night with Trace Gallagher and, alongside former Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, he blasted the liberal media for their wavering cowardice in the wake of President Biden’s disastrous debate performance.…

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On FNC, MRC’s Houck Slams CNN’s ‘Arrogance’, ‘Petulance’ Before Debate

June 25th, 2024 1:12 PM

Making his second appearance in less than a week on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck ripped CNN for both its “arrogance” and “petulance” ahead of its Thursday night presidential debate as well as the legal trouble the network has found itself in with allegations of defamation (reported by our own Nick Fondacaro).

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MRC’s Houck Sounds Off to FNC on WH’s ‘Cheap Fakes’ Line, Debate Rules

June 19th, 2024 11:34 AM

Late Tuesday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck joined fill-in host Kevin Corke and fellow panelist Amber Duke of The Spectator to lay waste to the full-court press by the Biden administration to label raw, unedited videos illustrating President Biden’s cognitive decline as deep fakes, “cheap fakes”, and part of a far-right…

NB Podcast: Bighorn Sheep, Murder Fantasies, & a Whole Lot of Waiting

May 29th, 2024 11:08 PM

Pivoting back to the news of the week after our big interview with Mary Margaret Olohan on release day for her book on trangenderism, I was joined by Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro as poked fun at the ratings of CNN’s pitiful primetime lineup with some help from a new piece by our own Bill D’Agostino. Isn’t it amazing that there are more wild Bighorn Sheep and female forklift operators than…

Column: Overdoing the Coverage of the ‘Hush Money Criminal Trial’

May 29th, 2024 8:14 AM

The Democrats want to run for office on the issue of "Democracy," because they think the Republicans are somehow opposed.  They never sound stranger than when they warn that a re-elected Donald Trump will use the powers of government for revenge on his political enemies. They can't grasp the fact that many voters see a vast conspiracy of partisan prosecutors trying to convict and imprison…

NewsBusters Podcast: Alito Flag Hubbub Shows Journos Need Real Hobbies

May 24th, 2024 9:18 PM

Alongside Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro for this Friday edition of the show, we dove into the wholly manufactured liberal media storyline (courtesy of The New York Times) of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and flags outside his homes as a sign he’s ethically and morally compromised as a jurist and – gasp – a far-right extremist! Simply put, the obsession over this story and the…

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MRC’s Houck Reacts on FNC to 2024 Debate Plans; ‘Watch Out’, Don!

May 16th, 2024 9:45 AM

NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck returned to the Fox News Channel Wednesday on Fox News @ Night to react to the sudden agreement between the Joe Biden and Donald Trump campaigns to hold presidential debates on June 27 with CNN and September 10 with ABC. Speaking to host Trace Gallagher, Houck urged caution on the part of the Trump team and be prepared for the debates to be…

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MRC’s Houck Joins Newsmax to Slam Anti-Trump Screed from Rory Kennedy

April 2nd, 2024 11:13 AM

In a truncated segment on Monday’s Eric Bolling The Balance (due to the previous segment with GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson), NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck said the meltdowns from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister Rory Kennedy and others over his independent presidential campaign are proof the press have decided they can only fear-monger voters into casting ballots for Biden…

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On FNC, MRC's Houck SLAMS 'Farcical' WashPost for Axing Hamas Cartoon

November 11th, 2023 12:33 PM

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck made his return Friday to the Fox News Channel for Fox News @ Night and, on the docket, Houck and host Trace Gallagher lambasted The Washington Post for their “ludicrous” and “farcical” “surrender[ing]” to pro-Hamas voices by taking down a cartoon slamming Hamas, The New York Times giving fashion advice to pro-Hamas protesters…

NewsBusters Podcast: Ridiculous 'No Evidence' Biden Impeachment Spin

September 13th, 2023 10:34 PM

The House launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, and the press promptly repeated the ridiculous but mandatory line that Republicans have “no evidence” of Biden being involved in his son’s influence-peddling. Plus: the cops captured the escaped murderer in Pennsylvania who couldn’t be tagged as an illegal alien.

NewsBusters Podcast: The ‘No Evidence’ Liberal Media Faceplant

September 8th, 2023 7:17 PM

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro were at the helm for another episode to close out the short week in which they repeatedly mocked the liberal media’s insistence that there’s “no evidence” to Biden family corruption. Thanks to our Bill D’Agostino, we have a thorough beatdown of the willfully blind and partisan press.