P.J. O’Rourke with Judy Muller at Live Talks Los Angeles

This video is from a Live Talks Los Angeles event taped at Track 16 at Bergamot Station. “You can remove morality from politics like you can remove the head from a chicken, and they’ll both keep goingâ€"politics much longer than the chicken.” â€"P.J. O’Rourke With more than a million words of trenchant journalism under his byline and more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer, P.J. O’Rourke has established himself as America’s premier political satirist. His 14 best-selling books include Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa, Peace Kills and On the Wealth of Nations. Both Time and The Wall Street Journal have called him “the funniest writer in America.” He frequently appears on television, and is a regular panelist on National Public Radio’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. In his latest book, DON’T VOTEâ€"It Just Encourages the Bastards P.J. O’Rourke turns his sights on the central issue in all of the above: politics. He’s known as a hard-bitten, cigar-smoking conservative. But, in fact, he bashes all political persuasions. Says O’Rourke, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Judy Muller is an Emmy Award â€"winning television correspondent and NPR commentator. She is on the faculty of the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism and is a regular contributor on NPR’s Morning Edition and a contributing correspondent for KCET’s SoCal Connected. She was a correspondent on ABC’s Nightline and prior to that was a correspondent on CBS News â€" on both television and radio.


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