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
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.
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.
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.