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Patrick Jake O’Rourke ist ein US-amerikanischer politischer Satiriker, Journalist und Schriftsteller. Er studierte an der Miami University und der Johns Hopkins University.

Nach eigenen Angaben war O’Rourke während seiner Studienzeit ein linksgerichteter Hippie, der in den 1970 allerdings einen damaszenen Wandel durchgemacht hat. Heute gilt er als den Republikanern zuneigender libertärer, teilweise auch konservativer Humorist und politischer Beobachter und erklärter Gegner der amerikanischen Linken . Er selbst schlug in der für ihn typischen sarkastischen Manier die Gründung zweier neuer Parteien vor: eine für diejenigen, die seinen eigenen ideologischen Mix unterstützen würden, und eine für jene, die genau der gegenteiligen Ansicht wären.

O’Rourke schrieb für mehrere unterschiedliche Publikationen, bevor er beim Satiremagazin National Lampoon im Jahr 1973 einstieg, wo er unter anderem Chefredakteur war und Artikel wie „Foreigners Around the World“ schrieb. Nachdem sich O’Rourke selbständig machte, erschienen seine Werke in Magazinen wie Playboy, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, und Rolling Stone. Später wurde er Chef der Auslandsredaktion des Rolling Stone, für den er bis 2001 arbeitete. Im Jahr 1996 fungierte er als der konservative Part in der Pro-und-Contra-Diskussionssendung 60 Minutes. Laut einer "60-Minutes"-Darstellung ist O’Rourke der meistzitierte lebende Mann im Penguin Book of Humorous Quotations.

Sein Artikel „How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.“, erschienen im März 1979 in National Lampoon, gilt als früher Vertreter des Gonzo-Journalismus. Später erschien der Artikel in seinem ersten Buch, Republican Party Reptile , das zu einem Bestseller wurde. Das Buch dreht sich rund um O’Rourkes damalige wirtschaftliche und geopolitische Ansichten, die bemerkenswert liberal waren, inklusive seiner Ansichten über Sex und Drogen.

Zurzeit ist O’Rourke Henry L. Mencken vv Fellow am Cato Institute und regelmäßiger Korrespondent der amerikanischen literarischen Zeitschrift The Atlantic Monthly und des rechten The Weekly Standard.

O’Rourke war zweimal verheiratet und hat drei Kinder, zwei Töchter und einen Sohn, von denen das jüngste 2003 geboren wurde. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. November 1947  •  Andere Namen Patrick Jake O'Rourke, P. J. O´Rourke
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P.J. O'Rourke Zitate und Sprüche

„Je breiter der Rumpf eines Deutschen, desto knapper sind die Badehosen und desto lauter die Stimme, die deutsche Ansprüche und deutsche Anweisungen hervorbringt, für alle, die Deutsch nicht sprechen. Aus diesem und einigen anderen Gründen ist Deutschland bekannt als »das Land, wo Israelis ihre Manieren her haben«.“

P.J. O'Rourke

Reisen in die Hölle und andere Urlaubsschnäppchen. Frankfurt/Main, 2006. Übersetzer: Reinhard Kaiser. ISBN 3-8218-4577-5
Original engl.: "The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as »the land where Israelis learned their manners«."

P.J. O'Rourke: Zitate auf Englisch

“Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting Hillary in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money — hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”

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The Liberty Manifesto (1993)

“The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is 'America's ex-wife.”

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"Letter to Our European Friends" (4 February 2008)

“People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Fishing … is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Crowded as the country is, is overcrowding even its main problem? Hong Kong and Singapore both have greater population densities (14.315 and 12.347 per square mile, respectively) than Bangladesh, and they're called success stories. The same goes for Monaco. In fact, the whole Riviera is packed in August, and neither Malthus nor Ehrlich have complained about the topless beaches of St. Tropez.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

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P. J. O'Rourke

As quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray

“Marilyn Quayle was there, too, looking – it was indeed a strange week in Washington – great. She had her hair done up in something my wife said was a chignon, and whatever it was, it made Marilyn look considerably less like a Cape buffalo than usual. Though actually I admired the Cape buffalo look. I have an idea that – like a Cape buffalo – if Marilyn Quayle gets furious and charges, you've got only one shot at the skull. You wouldn't want to just wound her.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Parliament of Whores

Parliament of Whores (1991)

“They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, "the Irish of Asia."”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“War will exist as long as there's a food chain.”

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Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Weird clothing is de rigeur for teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adolescence in the sixties and seventies, used up practically all the available weirdness.”

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Modern Manners (1983)

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.”

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Parliament of Whores (1991)

“The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts— squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.”

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Holidays in Hell (1989)

“The Institute of U. S. and Canadian Studies is supposed to have subscribed to the Village Voice for six years in an attempt to find out about life in America's rural areas.”

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Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”

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P. J. O'Rourke

The Liberty Manifesto (1993)

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