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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.

  • February 13, 2014

    "As it turned out, that was maybe a good thing that he had a 100-round magazine, because it jammed. If he had four, five, six 15-round magazines, there's no telling how much damage he could have done until a good guy with a gun showed up."
    -- CO state Rep. Bernie Herpin, referring to the Aurora shooting while arguing for overturning a new ban on high-capacity mags

  • February 12, 2014

    "An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated [that Christie chief spokesman Michael] Drewniak referred to the Port Authority's executive director as a 'piece of crap.' While Drewniak did call him a 'piece of excrement,' it was David Wildstein who referred to the executive director as a 'piece of crap.'"
    -- correction issued by New Jersey's Star-Ledger

  • February 11, 2014

    "Marijuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing."
    -- Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948

    "It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics...dope and all that crap. It's a thousand times better than whiskey -- it's an assistant, a friend."
    -- Louis Armstrong

  • February 10, 2014

    "The Bible...makes it plain that dinosaurs and people must have lived together...If the Bible's right (and it is!), dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years."
    -- creationist Ken Ham

    "[Bishop Ussher] added up the dates listed in Genesis and he came up with the world had been around for 6,000 years. [That] is just nonsense and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible...You can't just totally deny the geological formations that are out there. Let's be real. Let's not make a joke of ourselves."
    -- Pat Robertson on Ham

  • February 07, 2014

    "Right now, Jesus himself couldn't be the Speaker and get 218 Republicans behind something."
    -- Rep. Patrick J. Tiberi

  • February 06, 2014

    "We sent them an invoice for our musical services considering they had gone ahead and used our music without our knowledge and used it as an actual weapon against somebody."
    -- Skinny Puppy keyboardist cEvin Key, on billing the U.S. military $666,000 after a Gitmo guard / fan told them their music had been used to torture detainees

  • February 04, 2014

    "The company used such an iconic song, one often sung in churches on the 4th of July that represents the old 'E Pluribus Unum' view of how American society is integrated, to push multiculturalism down our throats."
    -- Breitbart's Michael Leahy, denouncing Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad in which Americans sang "America the Beautiful" in their native languages

  • February 02, 2014

    "A speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex. The worst there ever was is still excellent."
    -- political pundit Alex Castellanos on SOTU

  • January 31, 2014

    "I didn't threaten to shut down the government the last time. I don't think we should ever shut down the government."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz

  • January 30, 2014

    "The world is literally about to blow up."
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham