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Patrick Jake O’Rourke was a Toledo, Ohio, native who evolved from long-haired student activist to wavy-haired scourge of his old liberal ideals, with some of his more widely read takedowns appearing in a founding counterculture publication, Rolling Stone.
WBAL Radio 1090 AM - P.J. O'Rourke, irreverent author and commentator, dead at 74
The liberal-turned-conservative P.J. O'Rourke wrote for myriad left-leaning outlets. His books included “Parliament of Whores” and “Give War a Chance.”
P.J. O'Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, has died at age 74.
