Losing P.J. O'Rourke

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The podcast crew expresses our heartbreak at the untimely and sudden loss of our friend and contributor P.J. O'Rourke. We discuss his legacy—and guess at how excited he would have been to see the news this morning about a recall of leftist school board members in San Francisco and what that recall might portend. Give a listen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.
0:27.5	Today is Wednesday, February 16th, 2022.
0:32.0	I'm John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary magazine,
0:34.3	which me as always, executive editor,
0:36.8	a green walled high-aib.
0:38.5	Hi, John.
0:39.8	Senior writer, Christine Rosen, high-Christine.
0:42.4	Hi, John.
0:43.1	And associate editor, Noah Rossman.
0:45.0	Hi, Noah.
0:45.6	Hi, John.
0:46.8	Well, yesterday came the shocking, horrible, tragic, heartbreaking
0:52.5	news of the death of one of my oldest friends, PJ,
0:56.5	Aurora, who apparently got sick around Christmas time,
1:01.5	and then everything sort of went south for him on Monday.
1:08.3	And he passed away at the age of 74.
1:14.2	I have an appreciation of his life in the New York Post.
1:18.6	I think it's just worth aside from the personal loss,
1:23.6	which is really dramatic.
1:27.2	PJ was among many other things, maybe the nicest person
1:32.2	I've ever known, a man of almost infinite kindness,
1:38.9	a well-meaning, even though he was such a techno prisoners.
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