Posted on 02/15/2022 3:17:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
P.J. O’Rourke, who has died at the age of 74, once hosted a small New Year’s party at his apartment in Washington. The year was 1990. He’d just returned from Germany, where he had covered the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I expressed my sorrow that I hadn’t been there to see it. He went into his bedroom and returned with a small tin of mints. He’d emptied it — and he’d put a shard of the wall he’d pickaxed himself with his own hands inside it.
“Happy New Year,” he said. That was P.J. Though he and I liked each other, we weren’t intimates. And yet he gave me something of inestimable value just because he could.
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In those days there were Freepers protesting alongside the nation's busiest streets. We had the "Freeper Air Force" (often compliments of the great "Gonzo") toting banners with political statements over filled sports stadiums. Chapters in every state had occasional "conventions" (in fact, a lifetime ago I organized the first such convention at the Marriot on International Blvd in Orlando).
In those days we were simply standing on principle. We were the "Tea Party before the Tea Party".
My dad and I loved Firehat. We had many hearty laughs over his witticisms.
That's true, and contributed to a number of other popular programs as well.
I will be buy several of his books in the next few days.
No, he wasn’t. He voted for Hillary.
Screw him.
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I joined the local Tea Party in PA in 2010, heard about FR in 2011 from a neighbor of my nursery business in 2011, and joined here in 2012. Tea Party things sort of fizzled-out here in 2015-16.
RIP
From the New Statesman last year
Contrarianism remains his product. O’Rourke sprang back into the national spotlight during the 2016 presidential election by announcing that he was going to vote for Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump.
He puts the decision down to his natural conservatism. “Politics is a matter of least worst,” he told me when I recently stayed at his farm. “She was the devil I knew – she was going to be another eight years of Obama, which we had endured. Donald Trump? I knew people who knew him. Nobody liked him. I just thought he was unstable…dangerous. I still do.”
Apparently he wasn’t aging that well in 2016 or last year. I’ll hazard a guess that he remained silent about or actually cheered the coup.
Yes. He was.
People just to drop the Tea Party and go Trump. The era of small government ended, probably for good.
Sorry I missed that era. I also understand Tony Snow was here.;
Wasn’t going to say anything til I saw John “The Pud” wrote this. Pud is an evil man, a total warmonter anti-Trumper. As for P.J., God rest his soul. I never found him all that funny.
Instead, I looked to American Spectator’s “Continuing Crisis.”
But hey, that’s just me. Different humor for different people.
Podhoretz blocked me on twitter for pointing out there was nothing conservative about Never Trumpers supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016. It’s kind of funny to me he did that because usually higher profile people just ignore the replies from the unwashed masses.
Finally, people are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed...People are all the same although their circumstances differ terribly. Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics, or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.
RIP, PJ.
He called me a “dirty pig,” an interesting choice of words from a Jew when Jews were called exactly that in Nazi Germany.
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