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
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.
I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.
I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.