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
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
I'm a political conservative.
I'm a rather decisive type.
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
Satire doesn't effect change.
There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.