US political satirist PJ O’Rourke has died at age 74.

Washington:

US political satirist PJ O’Rourke, who skewered each Democrats and his fellow Republicans in barbed works together with “Republican Party Reptile,” has died at age 74, the author’s associates and employers stated Tuesday.

O’Rourke additionally wrote about his experiences in varied international locations and battle zones world wide as Rolling Stone journal’s chief international correspondent within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, significantly in his best-selling books “Holidays in Hell” and “Give War a Chance,” and had been a outstanding characteristic on US speak exhibits and the commentary circuit for many years.

The irreverent, cigar-chomping wit usually contrasted his personal youthful flirtation with the left along with his later persona as a caustic conservative in books equivalent to “Age and Guile beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut.”

He as soon as wrote of the United States’ two dominant political factions: “the Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer and remove the crab grass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it.”

However, he introduced in 2016 that he had voted for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton quite than the Republican contender Donald Trump, saying that her profitable could be the “second-worst thing that can happen to this country. But she’s way behind in second place.”

O’Rourke minimize his enamel as a satirist writing for National Lampoon journal in New York within the Seventies, and went on to turn out to be editor of the publication.

In later years he made frequent appearances on the humorous radio information quiz “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me,” whose longtime host Peter Sagal mourned his dying on Twitter Tuesday.

“Most well known people try to be nicer than they are in public than they are in private life,” he wrote. “PJ was the only man I knew to be the opposite.”

The New York Times reported that O’Rourke had died of issues from lung most cancers.

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