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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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„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

“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as caring and sensitive because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he is willing to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he will do good with his own money — if a gun is held to his head.”

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How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends: Individualism 'R' Us
Why I Am a Conservative (1996)

“To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.”

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Quelle: On The Wealth of Nations (2007), Chapter 2: "Why Is The Wealth of Nations So Damn Long?", p. 22

“Things are better now than things have been since men began keeping track of things. Things are better than they were only a few years ago. Things are better, in fact, than they were at 9:30 this morning, thanks to Tylenol and two Bloody Marys. But that's personal and history is general. It's always possible to come down with the mumps on V-J Day or to have, right in the middle of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a piece of it fall on your foot. In general, life is better than it ever has been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word: 'dentistry.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Give War a Chance

Give War a Chance (1992)

“The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“No, it turns out Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And how crazy does that make Saddam? All he had to do was tell Hans Blix, 'Look anywhere you want. Look under the bed. Look beneath the couch. Look behind the toilet tank in the third presidential palace on the left, but keep your mitts off my copies of Maxim.' And Saddam could have gone on dictatoring away until Donald Rumsfeld gets elected head of the World Council of Churches. But no…”

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"Putting Words in the President's Mouth" (12 October 2004)

“Industrialization came to England but has since left.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country?, contains ten chapters of fulminations convincing the convinced. However, Moore does include one chapter on how to argue with a conservative. As if. Approached by someone like Michael Moore, a conservative would drop a quarter in Moore's Starbucks cup and hurriedly walk away.”

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"I Agree With Me" (July/August 2004)

“A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads.”

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"Year in Review" in Rolling Stone (19 December 1985)

“When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Parliament of Whores

Quelle: Parliament of Whores (1991), pp. xviii-xix.

“Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“A pleasant natural environment is a good— a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.”

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The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.”

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Modern Manners (1983)

“If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners— two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.”

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P. J. O'Rourke buch Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.”

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All the Trouble in the World (1994)

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