| 词条 | P. J. O'Rourke |
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|name = P. J. O'Rourke |image = PJ O'Rourke 1.jpg |image_size = |caption = O'Rourke in 2007 |birth_name = Patrick Jake O'Rourke |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|11|14}} |birth_place = Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Miami University | Johns Hopkins University}} |occupation = {{hlist | Political satirist | journalist}} |spouse = {{unbulleted list | {{marriage|Amy Lumet|1990|1993|end=}} | {{marriage|Tina O'Rourke|1995}}}} |website = {{official URL}} }}Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian 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, he has been a columnist at The Daily Beast.[1] In the UK, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s. He is the author of 20 books, the best known of which are Holidays in Hell, a compilation of O'Rourke's articles as a free-lance foreign correspondent, All the Trouble in the World, an examination of current political concerns such as global warming and famine from a libertarian perspective.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} 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."[2] Life and careerO'Rourke was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Delphine (née Loy), a housewife, and Clifford Bronson O'Rourke, a car salesman.[3][4] He received his undergraduate degree from Miami University in 1969 and earned an M.A. in English at Johns Hopkins University (where he was a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity) in 1970. Many of O'Rourke's essays recount that during his student days he was a leftist, 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. 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 and the New York Ace, before joining National Lampoon in 1973, where he served as editor-in-chief, among other roles, and authored articles such as "Foreigners Around the World"[5] and "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink."[6] He received a writing credit for National Lampoon's Lemmings which helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Chevy Chase, and Christopher Guest. He also co-wrote National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook with Douglas Kenney. O'Rourke said later that Kenney brought comedy to the piece and he brought the organization. The Yearbook was a bestseller and some themes were later used in the movie Animal House.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} Going freelance in 1981, O'Rourke's writing appeared in Playboy, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, and Rolling Stone. He became foreign-affairs desk chief at Rolling Stone, where he remained until 2001. In 1996, he served as the conservative commentator in the point-counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes. During the Bosnian genocide, O'Rourke received criticism for using the American public's lack of interest in Bosnia as a way to joke about "unspellables killing the unpronouncables."[7] O'Rourke has published 16 books, including three New York Times bestsellers. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance reached #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. O'Rourke was a "Real Time Real Reporter" for Real Time with Bill Maher covering the 2008 presidential election.[8] Personal lifeO'Rourke was married to Amy Lumet, a daughter of movie director Sidney Lumet and a granddaughter of Lena Horne, from 1990 to 1993. Since 1995 he has been married to his second wife, Tina; they have two daughters, Elizabeth and Olivia, and one son, Clifford. In an interview with The New Statesman, O'Rourke revealed that his "wife is a Catholic, the kids are Catholic" and described himself as, therefore, a "Catholic fellow-traveller". The family divides their time between Sharon, New Hampshire and Washington, DC.[9] O'Rourke revealed on September 28, 2008, that he had been diagnosed with treatable anal cancer, from which he expected "a 95% chance of survival."[10] In 2009, O'Rourke described the presidency of Barack Obama as "the Carter administration in better sweaters".[11] 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 said, "She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters."[12] WritingO'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.[13] The article was republished in two of his books, Republican Party Reptile (1987) and Driving Like Crazy (2009). 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".[14] He has described himself as a libertarian.[15] O'Rourke types his manuscripts on an IBM Selectric typewriter, though he denies that he is a Luddite, asserting that his short attention span would make focusing on writing on a computer difficult.[16] Bibliography
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors.html|title=P.J. O'Rourke|publisher=The Daily Beast|accessdate=January 31, 2018}} 2. ^Terry Eastland, ed. Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994: A Critical Review of the Media (1994) p. 301 3. ^{{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|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220224748/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20120668,00.html|archivedate=2014-02-20|df=}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRazAQAAQBAJ&pg=PR5&lpg=PR5&dq=%22The%20Baby%20Boom%20is%20dedicated%20to%20the%20memory%20of%20Clifford%20Bronson%20O'Rourke%20and%20Delphine%20Loy%20O'Rourke,%20progenitors%20thereof.%22&source=bl&ots=3b6NcCkFXB&sig=BY7rz21Y4ssA85iTIOxjJCFhTRw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qA7vUszVIYXb2QXcwoDgDg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA|title=The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...|first=P.J.|last=O'Rourke|date=January 7, 2014|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc.|via=Google Books}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Karp|first1=Josh|title=A Futile and Stupid Gesture|date=2006|publisher=Chicago Review Press|location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=1-55652-602-4|page=273}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Karp|first1=Josh|title=A Futile and Stupid Gesture|date=2006|publisher=Chicago Review Press|location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=1-55652-602-4|pages=336–37}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8331074.stm|title=Matt Frei's diary: Dilemmas of intervention|publisher=BBC|accessdate=April 28, 2017}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/pj-orourke/credits/216703|title=P.J. O'Rourke {{!}} TV Guide|website=TVGuide.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-24}} 9. ^O'Rourke interview, newstatesman.com; accessed April 28, 2017. 10. ^Give me liberty and give me death, Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2008. 11. ^{{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|publisher=Fairfax Media|accessdate=December 22, 2011|location=Melbourne}} 12. ^{{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|accessdate=May 18, 2016}} 13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/how2/how2.html |title=Full text |accessdate=2006-05-05 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030124091317/http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/how2/how2.html |archivedate=January 24, 2003 |df= }}, National Lampoon mirror, Internet Archive, archive made 01-24-2003, archive retrieved 05-05-2007. 14. ^{{cite news|work=McGill-Queen's University Press|first=Peter|last=Swirski|title=Ars Americana Ars Politica|year=2010}} 15. ^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=2008-07-03 }}, The Washington Post September 10, 2001. 16. ^{{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}} External links{{Commons category}}{{Wikiquote}}
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