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Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and 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

President Barack Obama, left, listens as Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question from a member of the audience. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

HURT: Romney ticks off failed math of Obama’s four years

Thanks to the debates, we now know our country is being run by a couple of stoner college kids who spend most of their time slouched on the couch, watching TV, playing video games and doing drugs. Published October 16, 2012

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends a conference on women's empowerment in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Clinton arrived for the long-planned women's event in Lima, Monday, after another weekend of criticism from Republicans over the Obama administration's initial explanation of the Sept. 11 attack and security at the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

HURT: White House finds a scapegoat for tragedy in Libya

Lost in all the "fog of war," as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called it, that is still rising like smoke from the burned and looted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is an even more glaring global catastrophe caused by the Obama administration. Published October 16, 2012

Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks Oct. 4, 2012, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Associated Press)

HURT: Want higher taxes, Joe Biden? ‘Yes, we do!’

Joe Biden's done it again. He inadvertently said exactly what was rattling around in his old head, which is the cardinal sin of any politician and particularly egregious when your mind contains the peculiar thoughts of Vice President Joseph R. Biden and President Obama. Published October 7, 2012

** FILE ** Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama speak during the first presidential debate, at the University of Denver on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Goldman/Eric Gay)

HURT: Obama the debater: Making Jimmy Carter look awesome

Bewildered and lost without his teleprompter, President Obama flailed all around the debate stage last night. He was stuttering, nervous and petulant. It was like he had been called in front of the principal after goofing around for four years and blowing off all his homework. Published October 3, 2012

**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Sept. 26, 2012, in Westerville, Ohio. (Associated Press)

HURT: Romney’s game-changer: Run for only one term

When Mitt Romney walks into the debate hall Wednesday night for the most crucial performance of his accomplished life, he does not need to have mastered the dark arts of slick body language with which D.C. spinmeisters are so obsessed. Published October 2, 2012

President Obama walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Sept. 14, 2012, after arriving on Marine One on the South Lawn. (Associated Press)

HURT: Will the real Jimmah please stand up

Even in these corrosively partisan times there is one thing we can all agree upon: President Obama has managed to out-Jimmy Carter even Jimmy Carter himself. Published September 16, 2012

President Obama speaks at a campaign event Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, in Kissimmee, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

HURT: Beware the breathless pollsters

Election polls today are worth precisely what you probably paid to read them. Everybody has their thumb on the scale. Published September 12, 2012

Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

HURT: Even while praising Obama, Clinton pats his own back

Bill Clinton's typically epic speech last night was certainly the most detailed, calculated and complete attack on the Republican agenda that we have heard during the entire campaign. It was also the most unreserved and embracing defense of President Obama. Published September 6, 2012

** FILE ** Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his wife, Jill, arrive in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 4, 2012, to attend the Democratic National Convention. (Associated Press)

HURT: Biden’s garrulity, gaffes are 
antithesis of authenticity

If it is true that a sucker is born every minute, then there simply are not enough minutes in the day to account for all the suckers around here. And nothing brings these suckers together in agreement more than the canard that Vice President Joseph R. Biden is some kind of fountain of "authenticity." Published September 5, 2012

President Obama smiles as supporters applaud during a Sept. 4, 2012, rally at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Va. (Associated Press)

HURT: Only a celebrity like Obama can blow through $5.4 trillion

President Obama has gone full celebrity on us. He cannot run on the actual record of his first term, so he reaches back for that old magic from four years ago that helped him cross over from politician to full-blown icon. Published September 4, 2012

Charlotte Police K-9 units keep watch over the crowd as the Occupy Charlotte movement holds a protest march through the streets of uptown Charlotte, N.C. during the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/The Star, Ben Earp)

HURT: Convention security the embodiment of a police state

Welcome to the police state. In Tampa, Fla., and now here in Charlotte, N.C., thousands of troops, police and Secret Service agents flood the city and set up giant perimeters around the convention sites. They close off public land, shut down streets and take over private property. Published September 3, 2012

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives to speak to delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

HURT: Chris Christie, tamed and leashed at the RNC

What the heck happened to Chris Christie? Everyone eagerly anticipating his signature New Jersey-style smackdown on the first night of the Republican convention walked away scratching his head wondering who or what muted the famously uncontainable, confrontational, loud-mouthed governor. Published August 29, 2012

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks Aug. 21, 2012, during a campaign rally at Beaver Steel in Carnegie, Pa. (Associated Press)

HURT: With Ryan pick, the adults are now in charge

By picking Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a very political decision that his campaign for the presidency will be about offering serious solutions to gravely serious problems. It will be the group of adults versus the once-hip youngsters cruising around on one final bender before graduating from college. Published August 28, 2012