{{short description|American political commentator}} {{Infobox person | name = Charlie Hurt | image = Charlie Hurt by Gage Skidmore.jpg | caption = Hurt in 2018 | birth_date = November 3, 1971 | birth_place = [[Chatham, Virginia]] | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = [[Hampden-Sydney College]] | occupation = Columnist, political commentator | spouse = Stephanie Hurt | children = 3 | relatives = [[Robert Hurt (politician)|Robert Hurt]] (brother) }}
'''Henry Charles Hurt III''' (born November 3, 1971)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rothstein |first1=Betsy |title=50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill: Charlie Hurt |url=https://thehill.com/capital-living/20738-50-most-beautiful-people-on-capitol-hill-40-more/ |website=TheHill.com |date=24 July 2007}}</ref> is an American political commentator. He is currently the opinion editor of ''[[The Washington Times]]'',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Matt Drudge Hire Second Political Writer|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/charles-hurt-drudge-report-washington-times_n_861231.html|website = The Huffington Post|access-date = 2016-02-23}}</ref><ref name=WT>{{cite web|title = Charles Hurt {{!}} Stories - Washington Times|url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/charles-hurt/|website = Washingtontimes.com|accessdate = 2016-02-23}}</ref><ref name=WT2>{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/18/charles-hurt-rejoins-the-washington-times-as-new-o/|title=Charles Hurt rejoins The Washington Times as new opinion editor|work=The Washington Times|access-date=2017-05-03|language=en-US}}</ref> as well as a co-host of ''[[Fox & Friends|Fox & Friends Weekend]].'' <ref name=":1" /> Hurt's views have been considered to be [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]-leaning.
==Career== Hurt began his newspaper career as a boy in [[Chatham, Virginia]], writing and publishing the "Gilmer Gazette," named for the street on which he lived. During college at [[Hampden-Sydney College]] in Virginia he did stints at the ''[[Danville Register & Bee]]'', the ''[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]'' and the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]''. His first full-time job after graduating in 1995 was at ''[[The Detroit News]]'' where he became a replacement worker during a bitter strike. He worked at the paper until 2001, when he moved to the [[Washington, D.C.]] area to join the staff of ''[[The Charlotte Observer]]''.<ref name="Charlie">{{cite web|url=https://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/hurtc/01/|title=Charlie Hurt: Biographical Notes|date=2009|publisher=Mitchells Publications|accessdate=2 February 2018}}</ref>
From 2003 to 2007, Hurt covered the U.S. Congress as a reporter for ''[[The Washington Times]]''<ref name="Charlie" /> before leaving to join ''[[New York Post|The New York Post]]''. Hurt was ''[[New York Post|The New York Post]]''<nowiki/>'s D.C. Bureau Chief and news columnist covering the [[White House]] for five years.
In 2011, he rejoined ''The Washington Times'' as a political columnist.<ref name="WT" /> In December 2016, Hurt was named the opinion editor.<ref name="WT2" />
''[[National Review]]'' editor [[Rich Lowry]] described Hurt as "an early adopter of Donald Trump populism."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/the-trump-show-214075/|title=The Trump Dynasty Takes Over the GOP|last=|first=|date=|website=[[Politico]]m|access-date= 2017-05-03}}</ref>
In January 2025, it was announced that he was named co-host of ''[[Fox & Friends|Fox & Friends Weekend]].''
==Personal life== Hurt was born in [[Chatham, Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/capital-living/20738-50-most-beautiful-people-on-capitol-hill-40-more/|title=50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill - 40 More|last=Staff|first=The Hill|date=2007-07-24|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en|access-date=2019-11-19}}</ref> Hurt is the son of investigative journalist and former ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' editor Henry C. Hurt and his wife, Margaret Nolting Williams.<ref>{{cite web |title=Troth is Announced of Miss Williams, Henry C. Hurt, Jr. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/5939652/ |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Danville Register |accessdate=18 July 2018 |page=12-C |date=8 September 1968}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Chatham native Charles Hurt to become opinion page editor at The Washington Times |url=https://godanriver.com/work_it_sova/news/chatham-native-charles-hurt-to-become-opinion-page-editor-at/article_b8676530-c8a3-11e6-8402-67d36516b481.html |website=godanriver.com |accessdate=18 July 2018 |date=22 December 2016}}</ref> His older brother, [[Robert Hurt (politician)|Robert Hurt]], is a former United States Congressman. Charles Hurt had been a possible congressional candidate before his brother's term ended in 2016. Hurt and his wife, Stephanie, have three children.<ref>{{cite web |title=Charlie Hurt: Biographical Notes |url=https://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/hurtc/01/ |publisher=Mitchells Publications |accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Hurt |url=https://www.nndb.com/people/666/000403454/ |website=NNDB.com |publisher=Soylent Communications |accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{C-SPAN|1005845}}
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