High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick Jake "P. J." O`Rourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O`Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the 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!. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.