Curtis Houck is the Media Research Center’s new king of nonsensically hyperbolic headlines. Last September, Houck huffed: “Ben Shapiro Eviscerates Jimmy Kimmel’s Health Care Tirades; ‘Egregious’ to Exploit His Son.” Houck used…
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MRC Writer Resorts to Victimization, Generalization To Justify Attacks on ‘Liberal Media’
In a Nov. 17 post, the Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck tries to justify his employer’s existence in the face of a podcast discussion by CNN nemesis Brian Stelter, who accurately complained…
Yes, The MRC Is Anti-Media
In an Aug. 29 post, the Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck denounces the whole minor imbroglio over Melania Trump wearing stilettoes on her way to a presidential trip to visit victims of…
MRC’s Double Standard on Typos
After President Trump’s “covfefe” tweet, the Media Research Center fired off indignant post after indignant post about all the coverage it got: The author of that last post, Curtis Houck, complained: “If…
MRC Pretends Trump’s (And Its Own) Rhetoric Didn’t Play Role In GOP Pol’s Attack on Reporter
While the Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell and Tim Graham were providing wink-and-a-nod approval to Montana Republican candidate Greg Gianforte’s assault of reporter Ben Jacobs, their MRC minions were assigned a different…
MRC Won’t Tell Readers How Reporter Who Exposed Trump Won His Pulitzer
The Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck rants in an April 12 post: Speaking to a packed audience at Washington’s The Newseum, Washington Post reporter and new Pulitzer Prize winner David Fahrenthold proclaimed…
MRC Downplays Trump’s Weird, Racially Tinged Comment At Press Conference
The Media Research Center was so happy about President Trump’s anti-media screeds during last week’s press conference that Curtis Houck and Scott Whitlock slapped together an item claiming to list “12 of…
MRC Writer Forgets His Employer Is No Better Than The ‘Mainstream Media’ He Bashes
The Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck writes in a Feb. 8 post: In another hilarious case of irony, The 11th Hour host and serial liar Brian Williams teed up guest Charlie Sykes…
MRC Still Denying That Anti-Planned Parenthood Videos Were Deceptively Edited
The Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck uses a Dec. 7 post to smear Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak as a “pro-abortion lefty” spewing “insanity.” Why? Because she spoke the inconvenient truth that…
MRC Binges on Schadenfreude Over Trump Win, Forgets How It Acted in 2012
The Media Research Center was in full schadenfreude mode, detailing critical media reaction from others to Donald Trump’s win. “Meltdown” was a pretty heavily used word. Curtis Houck wrote: “By Wednesday morning,…