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.
Patrick Jake O’Rourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American embassy 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.
In the UK, he is known as the approach 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, and All the Trouble in the World, an psychotherapy of current diplomatic concerns such as global warming and famine from a libertarian perspective.[citation needed]
The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states, “O’Rourke’s indigenous reporting, irreverent humor, and crackerjack writing makes for Delicious reading. He never minces words or pulls his punches, whatever the subject.”