P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.
Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.