By Andrew Court New York Post

Legendary journalist and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke has died from lung cancer complications at 74.

The news was confirmed by his publisher Grove Atlantic in a statement Tuesday.

O’Rourke — a libertarian famed for his razor-sharp wit — notably skewered both Democrats and Republicans in print and on television.

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,” O’Rourke famously wrote in 1991. He later described the presidency of Barack Obama as “the Carter administration in better sweaters.”

O’Rourke gained national attention writing for humor magazine the National Lampoon in the 1970s, before going on to pen pieces for Playboy, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. He also published more than a dozen best-selling books, including 1987’s “Republican Party Reptile.”

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