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Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Home, Covering

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Thinking, Journalism

P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.266, Atlantic Books Ltd

Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Lying, Kids

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Stories, Way

P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Art, Humorous

The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Soccer, Baby

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Sailing, Boat

P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.429, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Hunger Strike, Clubs

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.