Editing P. J. O'Rourke

{{Short description|American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = P.&nbsp;J. O'Rourke
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| caption     = O'Rourke in 2007
| birth_name  = Patrick Jake O'Rourke
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1947|11|14}}
| birth_place = [[Toledo, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2022|2|15|1947|11|14}}
| death_place = [[Sharon, New Hampshire]], U.S.
| alma_mater  = {{unbulleted list | [[Miami University]] | [[Johns Hopkins University]]}}
| occupation  = {{hlist | [[Political satire|Political satirist]] | journalist}}
| spouse      = {{unbulleted list | {{marriage|Amy Lumet|1990|1993|end=divorced}} | {{marriage|Tina Mallon|1995<!--Per template guidelines: "If the marriage ended because of the death of the article's subject, do not provide a reason"-->}}}}
| children    = Elizabeth, Olivia, Edward
| website     = {{official URL}}
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'''Patrick Jake O'Rourke''' (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American author, journalist, and [[Political satire|political satirist]] who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. ''[[Parliament of Whores]]'' and ''[[Give War a Chance]]'' both reached No. 1 on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' bestseller list]].

After beginning his career writing for the ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'', O'Rourke went on to serve as foreign affairs desk chief for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' where he reported from far-flung places. Later he wrote for a number of publications, including ''[[The Atlantic]]'', the ''[[The Daily Beast|Daily Beast]]'', the ''[[The Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]'', and the ''Weekly Standard'', and was a longtime panelist on NPR's ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]''.

The ''Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994'' states, "O'Rourke's original reporting, irreverent humor, and crackerjack writing makes for delectable reading. He never minces words or pulls his punches, whatever the subject."<ref>Terry Eastland, ed. (1994). ''Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994: A Critical Review of the Media''. p. 301.</ref>

==Life and career==
O'Rourke was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]], the son of Delphine (née Loy), a housewife, and Clifford Bronson O'Rourke, a car salesman.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20120668,00.html | title=Serving Up Emily Post with a Wicked Twist, P.J. O'Rourke Takes Aim at Modern Manners | first1=Kim | last1=Hubbard | first2=Dirk | last2=Mathison | date=July 3, 1989 | work=People | access-date=August 12, 2022 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220224748/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20120668,00.html | archive-date=February 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRazAQAAQBAJ&q=%22The%20Baby%20Boom%20is%20dedicated%20to%20the%20memory%20of%20Clifford%20Bronson%20O'Rourke%20and%20Delphine%20Loy%20O'Rourke,%20progenitors%20thereof.%22&pg=PR5|title=The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...|first=P.J.|last=O'Rourke|year=2014|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc.|isbn=978-0802121974|via=Google Books}}</ref> O'Rourke had Irish ancestry that traces back to [[County Roscommon]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.irishamerica.com/2007/08/p-j-orourke/ | title=P.J. O'Rourke | first=Chuck | last=Leddy | date=August 2007 | website=Irish America | access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref> He graduated from Toledo's [[DeVilbiss High School (Toledo, Ohio)|DeVilbiss High School]] in 1965,<ref>1965 Pot O' Gold, Volume 33, Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School.</ref> received his undergraduate degree from [[Miami University]] in 1969 and earned a [[Master of Arts]] in English at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.miamialum.org/s/916/16/interior.aspx?pgid=8067&gid=1&cid=26353|title = Boomers' Ballad|last = Marsh|first = Betsa|work = Miami University Alumni Association|publisher = Miami University|access-date = February 15, 2022}}</ref> Many of O'Rourke's essays recount that during his student days he was a [[left-wing politics|left]]ist, anti-war [[hippie]], but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a ''volte-face''. He emerged as a political observer and humorist rooted in [[libertarian conservatism]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Grove |first=Lloyd |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/06/03/pj-orourke-one-extreme-to-the-other/5c8ee525-76ab-40eb-91d9-ab21795cfd9c/ |title=P.J. O'Rourke One Extreme To The Other |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 3, 1991 |access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Richard |last=Hamer |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2020/03/pj-o-rourke-i-thought-trump-was-unstable-dangerous-i-still-do |title=PJ O'Rourke: "I thought Trump was unstable, dangerous. I still do" |publisher=Newstatesman.com |date= March 4, 2020|access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref>

O'Rourke wrote articles for several publications, including "A.J. at N.Y.U." for ''[[The Rip Off Review of Western Culture]]'', an underground magazine/comic book, in 1972, as well as pieces for the Baltimore underground newspaper ''[[Harry (newspaper)|Harry]]'' and the ''[[New York Ace]]'', before joining ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' in 1973, where he served as [[editor-in-chief]], among other roles, and authored articles such as "Foreigners Around the World"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Karp|first1=Josh|title=A Futile and Stupid Gesture|date=2006|publisher=Chicago Review Press|location=Chicago|isbn=978-1556526022|page=[https://archive.org/details/futilestupidgest00karp_0/page/273 273]|url=https://archive.org/details/futilestupidgest00karp_0/page/273}}</ref> and "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Karp |title=A Futile and Stupid Gesture|date=2006|publisher=Chicago Review Press|location=Chicago|isbn=978-1556526022|pages=[https://archive.org/details/futilestupidgest00karp_0/page/336 336–337]|url=https://archive.org/details/futilestupidgest00karp_0/page/336}}</ref>

O'Rourke received a writing credit for ''[[National Lampoon's Lemmings]]'' which helped launch the careers of [[Chevy Chase]] and [[Christopher Guest]]. He also co-wrote ''[[National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody|National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook]]'' with [[Douglas Kenney]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Greg|last= Evans |url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/p-j-orourke-dead-satirist-author-npr-panelist-was-74-1234934208/ |title=P. J. O'Rourke Dead: Satirist, Author & NPR Panelist Was 74  |publisher=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date= February 15, 2022|access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref> This inspired the cult comedy, ''[[Animal House]]'', which launched the career of [[John Belushi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=PJ O'Rourke dies aged 74 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/pj-orourke-dies-of-lung-cancer-aged-74-6sz8xrd5t |access-date=March 17, 2022 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

Going [[Freelancer|freelance]] in 1981, O'Rourke had his work published in ''[[Playboy]],'' ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]],'' ''[[Car and Driver]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barracudamagazine.com/interview-with-p-j-orourke/ |title=Interview With P.J. O'Rourke |publisher=Barracudamagazine.com |date= |access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref> and ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. He became foreign-affairs desk chief at ''Rolling Stone'', where he remained until 2001.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Althea|last= Legaspi |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/p-j-orourke-dead-obit-1300786/ |title=P.J. O'Rourke, Celebrated Conservative Satirist, Dead at 74 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date= February 15, 2022|access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref> In 1996, he served as the conservative commentator in the point-counterpoint segment of ''[[60 Minutes]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://buffalonews.com/news/p-j-orourke-cops-an-attitude/article_4acb5701-a202-53f0-aa55-d4aa4ababc04.html|title=P. J. O'Rourke Cops an Attitude|last = Simon|first = Jeff|website=Buffalo News|date = March 7, 1997}}</ref> During the [[Bosnian genocide]], O'Rourke referred to the American public's lack of interest in [[Bosnia]] as a way to joke about "the unspellables killing the unpronounceables".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8331074.stm | title=Matt Frei's diary: Dilemmas of intervention | first=Matt | last=Frei | publisher=BBC | date= October 29, 2009 | access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref>

O'Rourke published over 20 books, including three ''[[New York Times]]'' bestsellers. ''[[Parliament of Whores]]'' and ''[[Give War a Chance]]'' reached No. 1 on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pj-orourke-renowned-political-satirist-journalist-dies-age-74-2022-02-15/|title=P.J. O'Rourke, renowned political satirist and journalist, dies age 74|first=Tyler|last=Clifford|date=February 15, 2022|work = [[Reuters]]}}</ref> He also wrote ''Modern Manners'' and ''[[Holidays in Hell]].''<ref name=":0" /> O'Rourke was a "Real Time Real Reporter" for ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]'' covering the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/pj-orourke/credits/216703|title=P.J. O'Rourke |website=TVGuide.com|language=en|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> In the UK, he was known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for [[British Airways]] in the 1990s.<ref name=":0" />

O'Rourke also worked on screenplays in Hollywood, including [[Rodney Dangerfield]]'s ''[[Easy Money (1983 film)|Easy Money]]''.<ref name=":0" />

In 2009, O'Rourke described the nascent [[presidency of Barack Obama]] as "the [[Presidency of Jimmy Carter|Carter administration]] in better sweaters".<ref name="The Age - 23Apr2009 - The world (and its crisis) according to P.J.">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/the-world-and-its-crisis-according-to-pj-20090422-afbz.html|title=The world (and its crisis) according to P.J.|last=Shanahan|first=Leo|date=April 23, 2009|work=[[The Age]]|access-date=December 22, 2011|location=Melbourne}}</ref> However, in 2016, he endorsed presidential candidate [[Hillary Clinton]] over [[Donald Trump]]. O'Rourke stated that his endorsement included her "lies and empty promises" and added "She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters".<ref>{{cite web|last=Gass|first=Nick|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/pj-orourke-endorses-hillary-clinton-222954|title=P.J. O'Rourke hate-endorses Hillary Clinton on NPR quiz show|date=May 9, 2016|work=Politico|access-date=May 18, 2016}}</ref>

==Personal life==
From 1990 to 1993, O'Rourke was married to Amy Lumet, a daughter of movie director [[Sidney Lumet]] and a granddaughter of [[Lena Horne]]. In 1995, he married Tina Mallon; they had three children: daughters Elizabeth and Olivia and son Clifford.<ref name = Genzlinger>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/books/pj-orourke-dead.html|title = P.J. O'Rourke, Conservative Political Satirist, Dies at 74|work = [[The New York Times]]|last = Genzlinger|first = Neil|date = February 15, 2022|access-date = February 15, 2022|url-access = limited}}</ref> In an interview with the ''[[New Statesman]]'' published in January 2012, O'Rourke said, "Despite my name, I wasn't raised a Catholic. My mother was a Protestant, of a traditional American, vague kind: she belonged to the church that the nice people in the neighbourhood went to. My wife is a Catholic, the kids are Catholic, so I'm a Catholic fellow-traveller."<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2012/01/barack-obama-interview-tea|title = The NS Interview – P J O'Rourke|date = January 9, 2012|last = Shackle|first = Shamira|work = [[New Statesman]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120115055927/https://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2012/01/barack-obama-interview-tea|archive-date = January 15, 2012}}</ref>

In September 2008, O'Rourke announced that he had been diagnosed with treatable [[rectal cancer]], from which he expected "a 95% chance of survival".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-orourke28-2008sep28,0,3317114.story |title=Give me liberty and give me death|last=O'Rourke|first= P.J. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date= September 28, 2008}}</ref> O'Rourke, a heavy smoker, died from [[lung cancer]] at his home in [[Sharon, New Hampshire]], on February 15, 2022, at the age of 74.<ref name="Genzlinger" /><ref name="Romero">{{cite news|url = https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pj-orourke-influential-satirist-commentator-dies-74-rcna16378|title = P.J. O'Rourke, influential satirist and commentator, dies at 74|work = [[NBCNews.com]]|last = Romero|first = Dennis|date = February 15, 2022|access-date = February 15, 2022}}</ref>

==Writing==
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?111867-1/eat-rich Presentation by O'Rourke on ''Eat the Rich'', September 15, 1998], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?111867-1/eat-rich ''Booknotes'' interview with O'Rourke on ''Each the Rich'', January 3, 1999], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?167260-1/the-ceo-sofa Presentation by O'Rourke on ''The CEO of the Sofa'', November 10, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?182438-1/peace-kills-americas-fun-imperialism Presentation by O'Rourke on ''Peace Kills'', June 22, 2004], [[C-SPAN]]| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?287078-1/driving-crazy Presentation by O'Rourke on ''Driving Like Crazy'', June 13, 2009], [[C-SPAN]]| video6 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?296475-1/dont-vote-encourages-bastards Presentation by O'Rourke on ''Don't Vote, It Just Encourages the Bastards'', November 3, 2010], [[C-SPAN]]| video7 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?317354-1/the-baby-boom Presentation by O'Rourke on ''The Baby Boom'', January 15, 2014], [[C-SPAN]] | video8 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?400037-6/open-phones-pj-orourke Interview with O'Rourke on ''Thrown Under the Omnibus'', November 22, 2015], [[C-SPAN]] | video9 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?400037-4/thrown-omnibus Presentation by O'Rourke on ''Thrown Under the Omnibus'', November 22, 2015], [[C-SPAN]] | video10 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?425794-1/pj-orourke-discusses-how-hell-happen Presentation by O'Rourke on ''How the Hell Did This Happen?'', March 27, 2017], [[C-SPAN]] | video11 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?451161-2/none-business Presentation by O'Rourke on ''None of My Business'', September 2, 2018], [[C-SPAN]] | video12 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?475905-1/a-cry-middle Interview with O'Rourke on ''A Cry from the Far Middle'', September 15, 2020], [[C-SPAN]]}}
O'Rourke was a proponent of [[gonzo journalism]]; one of his earliest and best-regarded pieces was "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink", a ''National Lampoon'' article in March 1979.<ref name="Pendergast2000">{{cite book |last1=Pendergast |first1=Tom |last2=Pendergast |first2=Sara |title=St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture |date=2000 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-403-0 |page=573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=al4YAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Republican%20Party%20Reptile%22 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/how2/how2.html |title=Full text |access-date=May 5, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030124091317/http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/how2/how2.html |archive-date=January 24, 2003 |url-status=dead}}, ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' mirror, [[Internet Archive]], archive made January 24, 2003, archive Retrieved May 5, 2007.</ref> The article was republished in two of his books, ''[[Republican Party Reptile]]'' (1987) and ''[[Driving Like Crazy]]'' (2009).<ref name="Urquhart2009">{{cite news |last1=Urquhart |first1=James |title=Driving Like Crazy, By P J O'Rourke |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/driving-like-crazy-by-p-j-o-rourke-1794111.html |access-date=February 16, 2022 |work=The Independent |date=September 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216032114/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/driving-like-crazy-by-p-j-o-rourke-1794111.html |archive-date=February 16, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

O'Rourke's best-received book is ''[[Parliament of Whores]],'' subtitled ''A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government'', whose main argument, according to the author, "is that politics are boring".<ref>{{cite news|work=McGill-Queen's University Press|first=Peter|last=Swirski|title=[[Ars Americana Ars Politica]]|year=2010}}</ref> He described himself as a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]].<ref>[http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_orourke091001.htm Live Online with PJ O'Rourke] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703193654/http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_orourke091001.htm |date=July 3, 2008 }}, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' September 10, 2001.</ref>

O'Rourke typed his manuscripts on an [[IBM Selectric]] [[typewriter]], though he denied being a [[Neo-Luddism|Luddite]], asserting that his short attention span would have made focusing on writing on a computer difficult.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/stray-questions-for-pj-orourke/?hp|work=The New York Times|first=Dwight|last=Garner|title=Stray Questions for: P.J. O'Rourke|date=November 9, 2007}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''[[National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody]]'' (1974; with [[Doug Kenney]]); {{ISBN|978-1-59071-057-9}}
* ''[[National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody]]'' (1978; with [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]]); {{ISBN|978-1-59071-037-1}}
* ''Modern Manners'' (1983); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-375-5}}
* ''The Bachelor Home Companion'' (1986); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-686-2}}
* ''[[Republican Party Reptile]]'' (1987); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-622-0}}
* ''[[Holidays in Hell]]'' (1989); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-3701-2}}
* ''[[Parliament of Whores]]'' (1991); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-3970-2}}
* ''[[Give War a Chance]]'' (1992); {{ISBN|978-0-679-74201-2}}
* ''All the Trouble in the World'' (1994); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-611-4}}
* ''Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut'' (1995); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-653-4}}
* ''The American Spectator's Enemies List'' (1996); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-632-9}}
* ''[[Eat the Rich (book)|Eat the Rich]]'' (1999); {{ISBN|978-0-87113-760-9}}
* ''The CEO of the Sofa'' (2001); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-3940-5}}
* ''Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism'' (2004); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4198-9}}
* ''On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World'' (2007); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4342-6}}
* ''[[Driving Like Crazy]]'' (2009); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-1883-7}}
* ''Don't Vote! – It Just Encourages the Bastards'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-8021-1960-5}}
* ''[[Holidays in Heck]]'' (2011); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-1985-8}}
* ''The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn't My Fault) (And I'll Never Do It Again)'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-8021-2197-4}}
* ''Thrown Under the Omnibus'' (2015); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-2366-4}}
* ''How the Hell Did This Happen? The Election of 2016'' (2017); {{ISBN|978-0802126191}}
* ''None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He's Not Rich and Neither Are You'' (2018); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-2848-5}}
* ''A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land'' (2020); {{ISBN|978-0-8021-5773-7}}

==See also==
* ''[[War Feels Like War]]'', in which P.&nbsp;J. O'Rourke stars

==References==
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* [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/05/01/2556370.htm PJ O'Rourke delivers Australia's National Press Club Address]
* Transcript (and video): [http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2538917.htm ABC 7:30 Report: An Audience with PJ O'Rourke]
* {{National Public Radio|1952790}} in 2004
* [http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=753512143 P.J. on The Hour]
* {{C-SPAN|26549}}
** [https://www.c-span.org/video/?195600-1/depth-pj-orourke ''In Depth'' interview with O'Rourke, January 7, 2007]
* [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/p_j_o_rourke Articles] at ''[[The Atlantic]]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080409005709/http://www.cato.org/people/orourke.html Articles] at the [[Cato Institute]]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068yf8z BBC Radio 4 – Point of View program: Presidential Candidates (Sep 2015) 5audio 10min]

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