Audio: P.J. O'Rourke on Hugh Hewitt Show - 6/12/09

Hugh Hewitt - Townhall ^ | June 12, 2009 | P.J. O'Rourke, Hugh Hewitt

[EveningStar]

Hugh spends the hour talking with legendary writer and pundit P.J. O'Rourke, author of the brand new book, Driving Like Crazy.

[EveningStar]

Click link to listen.

[EveningStar]

Ping

[ozzymandus]

I used to like PJ until I saw a clip of him on Maher trashing Rush. Screw you, Peej.

[Army Air Corps]

Driving Like Crazy is a good read.

[Ahithophel]

I used to like PJ until I saw a clip of him on Maher trashing Rush.

There are no sacred cows with PJ (see, e.g., Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance) and he's an equal opporunity skewerer calling 'em like he sees 'em - and that's why I still like him.

[DrC]

“Driving Like Crazy is a good read.”

Sorry, don’t have an hour to listen and haven’t read book: if the title is an allusion to Obama, this is the most succinct version I’ve seen of the wild ride he’s taking us on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yxFtTwDcc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdelraytimes.blogspot.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

Stop Obama! I want to get off!

[EveningStar]

Yeah. I remember that. My stock in him went way down after that.

[AnalogReigns]

Screwing Rush also just happens to be a way to open doors to mainstream media types like Maher.

I've noticed a persistant phenomena too: Conservative and/or libertarian commentators, of very similar opinions to Limbaugh, but with FAR less influence and income than him (& with egos that match) tend to like to skewer Rush.

Surprise, surprise, eh?

[Ahithophel]

Surprise, surprise, eh?

Yes, shocking. PJ is a satirist, those other guys are bottom feeding opportunists who haven't had original thought in 30 years

[goat granny]

Laughed my way through many of his books and never watch Maher. The first one I read was “Parliament of Whores” about our senators and congress critters...He nailed them and I laughed my self silly reading it.

He's a Libertarian

[ozzymandus]

He was funny back at the National Lampoon, I’ll say that. Jeff Greenfield, who’s now a “political commentator” (meaning leftie yes-man) also worked at NatLamp.

[Ahithophel]

He was funny back at the National Lampoon

I'd forgotten that he'd been there. National Lampoon was like eating at the Old Country Buffet: Lots of food but nothing that satisfying yet still an irresistable urge to revisit the buffet line hoping to find something good to eat. At least that's how I remember it. National Lampoon that is, . . . and Old Country Buffet, now that I think about it.