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TWO DECADES OF WTF

Welcome to the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of insane, tragic, misguided, dishonest, inexplicable, and darkly hilarious comments by public figures. This is where reality comes when it wants its mind blown.

  • November 06, 2014

    "Despite your view -- and policies -- that government must lord over women, in keeping with radical liberalism, you have to fake support for our equal rights; so you do it in a militant sort of way to compensate for your confusion. On pretending to know what's best for us you've got nothing but a silent scream demanding, 'Hear me roar!'"
    -- Sarah Palin on President Obama

  • November 05, 2014

    "The Republicans, of course, have turned against Obama, and the Democrats have also turned against Obama...Gas under $3 a gallon. Unemployment under 6% -- whoever thought? Stock market breaking records every day. No wonder the guy is so unpopular."
    -- David Letterman

  • November 03, 2014

    "Get out and vote. If it's the day to go vote, make sure you go vote before you burn one down. Don't get high and forget to vote."
    -- Willie Nelson

  • November 03, 2014

    "Most of it was just men being polite. You see a pretty woman; you react to it."
    -- Rush Limbaugh, on viral video of woman receiving 100 catcalls while walking through NYC for a day

  • October 30, 2014

    "Damn, baby, you're a piece of woman."
    --Fox News co-host Bob Beckel commenting on Shoshana B. Roberts, in discussing her viral video about street harrassment, which shows her receiving 100 catcalls while walking through NYC for a day

    "It's their bar, and she's walking through it."
    -- co-host Greg Gutfield

  • October 27, 2014

    WI Gov. Scott Walker, when asked if he rejected Medicaid expansion in order to help the health insurance companies which contributed significantly to his campaign:

    "Actually, if you think about it, it's just the opposite. It means fewer people would be on insurance actually, if, in the end, if there were more people there they'd be under Medicaid. It's not a, for us, it has no decision one way of the other."

    Asked in a follow-up if he was saying health insurance companies did not benefit at all from his decision on Medicaid, even though an estimated 78,000 customers were forced off the state program and had to go to private providers:

    "In the end I'm saying that you had people before who were on a waitlist, and those weren't folks that were affected one way or another by insurance out there, and the fact is to my knowledge they haven't lobbied me personally nor anybody in my administration on this."

  • October 26, 2014

    "[Former Reagan chief of staff Donald T. Regan] said an astrologer had set the time for summit meetings, presidential debates, Reagan's 1985 cancer surgery, State of the Union addresses and much more. Without an O.K. from the astrologer, he said, Air Force One did not take off."
    -- from the NYT obituary of White House astrologer Joan Quigley

  • October 24, 2014

    "Before Obamacare, there had never been a confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S."
    -- Nick Muzin, Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz

  • October 23, 2014

    "Whatever story, whatever angle, whatever story is out there, there's always some sort of supposed media-bias angle to it. And I'm like, 'Aren't they the No. 1 news media outlet on cable?'"
    -- "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd on Fox News

  • October 22, 2014

    "I have to tell you the truth. I'm tired of hearing about the minimum wage. I really am."
    -- NJ Gov. Chris Christie