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Charles Hurt was the Opinion Editor and is a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Fox News contributor on the cable network’s signature evening news roundtable, Mr. Hurt in his 20-year career has worked his way up from a beat reporter for the Detroit News and Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer before joining The Washington Times in 2003. He later served as D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for the New York Post and editor at the Drudge Report. He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com.

Columns by Charles Hurt

Images of Fox News personalities, from left, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo, Stuart Varney, Neil Cavuto and Charles Payne appear outside News Corporation headquarters in New York on July 31, 2021. In defending itself against a massive defamation lawsuit over how Fox covered false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the network is relying on a 1964 Supreme Court ruling that makes it difficult to successfully sue media organizations for libel. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Media distortions: What’s really going on in effort to silence Fox News

Reading the unhinged reports in the left-wing media, you might think that Fox News is staggering against the ropes and about to crumple to the canvas for the final, bloody count-out.

March 7, 2023

Alex Murdaugh is led to the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing in in Walterboro, S.C., Friday, March 3, 2023, after being convicted of two counts of murder in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife and son. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Murdaugh verdict: Jury of ordinary citizens in South Carolina shows us the way

Tangled stories of love and murder drip like Spanish moss from the live oaks in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, marking the stillness of time.

March 6, 2023

President Joe Biden laughs with Vice President Kamala Harris as the leave after Biden spoke about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Nation annihilator: Biden finds partisan comedy in deaths of innocent Americans

It's all a big, sick joke to President Biden.

March 2, 2023

Alex Murdaugh is cross-examined by prosecutor Creighton Waters after taking the stand during his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool)

Southern Gothic: Alex Murdaugh is an admitted liar and thief, but did he kill his wife and son?

Alex Murdaugh's devouring testimony in his double murder trial last week brought to mind the opening line of A.J. Liebling's charitably reported and beautifully written biography of Huey Long.

February 27, 2023

President Joe Biden delivers a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, at the Royal Castle Gardens in Warsaw. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

As ‘Ukraine Joe’ celebrates one year of war, East Palestine pays

Donald Trump won the 2016 election because American voters had more faith in a "reality television" star to remain in character than they did in a lifelong politician to keep her promises.

February 23, 2023

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley looks to supporters at a town hall campaign event, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Exeter, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Beware Nikki Haley, Grade A bureaucrat in ‘Oedipal primary’

Former South Carolina Gov. and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has joined the 2024 Republican presidential race as the latest "I'm not Donald Trump" candidate.

February 20, 2023

Cracked Candidate John Fetterman Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democratic Party has zombielike lust for power

You have to hand it to Democrat politicians: They are seriously committed to their politics. For them, politics is more important than life itself.

February 16, 2023

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., laughs b before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

George Santos’ short, honest life

At this week's State of the Union address, President Biden sat on a throne of lies. Congressman George Santos, meanwhile, took an aisle seat.

February 9, 2023

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. The balloon was struck by a missile from an F-22 fighter just off Myrtle Beach, fascinating sky-watchers across a populous area known as the Grand Strand for its miles of beaches that draw retirees and vacationers. (Chad Fish via AP)

Biden vs. Party ‘balloon’

The most powerful military ever assembled by humans was thwarted this past week. By a balloon.

February 5, 2023

Mad Joe Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

USA for sale: Biden is America’s Caligula

Donald Trump was American Caesar. Joe Biden: America's Caligula.

February 2, 2023

FILE - President Joe Biden hands the pen he used to sign the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., watches in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Republicans stage intervention for President Biden, spending junkie

The fight is spending. The time is now.

January 30, 2023

Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he smiles while speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. A Florida Judge sanctioned Trump and one of his attorneys Thursday, Jan. 19, ordering them to pay nearly $1 million for filing what he said was a bogus lawsuit against Trump's 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and others. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

As Trump is wooed back to Twitter, Biden family looking at jail time

Facebook is serenading Donald Trump to return to its platform, and Twitter is practically begging his thumbs to come back.

January 26, 2023

President Joe Biden arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The worm has turned on Biden in Washington

After two years of unending disasters from this administration, misplaced government papers are going to be the downfall of President Biden.

January 23, 2023

Al Gore, former vice-President of the United States and Chairman and Co-Founder of Generation Investment Management, reacts during the 53rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The meeting brings together entrepreneurs, scientists, corporate and political leaders in Davos under the topic "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" from 16 to 20 January. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Revenge of the extraterrestrials: Al Gore and John Kerry’s only hope is human sacrifice

Build the pyres! Raise the gallows! Pound the stakes into the ground! Gather tinder! And someone brings the sulfur matches!

January 19, 2023

Hunter Biden arrives in the East Room before President Joe Biden speaks awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people at the White House in Washington, July 7, 2022. Come next year, Republicans have made clear, the January 6th select committee will be no more. Investigations into the president’s son, Hunter Biden, will quickly begin. And GOP priorities like border security, parents’ rights and defunding the IRS will be on fast tracks to the House floor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Biden name is trash, but Little Girl should get same cut as ‘Big Guy’

He is such a cheapskate that he won't even give his own daughter her family name.

January 16, 2023

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaks to the Transportation Research Board gathering in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. The world's largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Buttigieg’s notice to ‘airmen’: Better take the train — or not

After somehow breaking our supply chain in the middle of a recession, America's "chestfeeding" secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, managed to grind air traffic to a halt this week.

January 12, 2023

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., votes for himself for the ninth time in the House chamber as the House meets for the third day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McCarthy’s path forward that even Republicans couldn’t screw up

Never mind all the swooning ladies, pearl-clutchers and screaming weenies in the Republican Party. Or the eye-bulging hysteria from the political press.

January 5, 2023

Rep.-elect George Santos, R-New York, speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Yeah, that’s the ticket, Mr. Santos! Another year, another liar in Congress

Sounds like this pathological liar from New York who got elected to the House of Representatives is a real nut job -- a perfect fit for Congress.

January 3, 2023

Written in Hell by the Devil Pelosi Herself Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

2022: A year to forget

It's over. And if you're reading this, you survived. The year 2022 will go down in history as, well, a year.

December 29, 2022

Trump Illustration by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times

‘Tis the season for Trump

Donald Trump is the Santa Claus of politics.

December 22, 2022