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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.

  • January 07, 2014

    "Who didn't want him dead?"
    -- NY Post front page headline about a murdered Hasidic Jewish "slumlord" whose burned body was found in a dumpster

  • January 06, 2014

    "At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah. The police and the army have abandoned the city, al-Qaeda has taken down all the Iraqi flags and burned them, and it has raised its own flag on all the buildings."
    -- an anonymous Iraqi journalist, quoted in Business Insider story

  • January 03, 2014

    "I've been the best mayor that this city's ever had. My record speaks for itself."
    -- Toronto mayor Rob Ford, seeking re-election

  • January 02, 2014

    "God created humans pretty much in their present form at one time in the last 10,000 years or so."
    -- assertion agreed with by 46% of Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll

  • December 31, 2013

    "I don't know. It's a question I've never even thought about."
    -- abortion foe Ohio state Sen. Jim Buchy, asked by a reporter, "What do you think makes a woman want to have an abortion?"

  • December 30, 2013

    "I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz

  • December 26, 2013

    "With regard to the picture, 'It's a Wonderful Life,' xxxx stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'Scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists."
    -- from 1947 FBI report, "Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry"

  • December 24, 2013

    "The right to celebrate Christmas is under attack."
    -- Fox Nation

  • December 23, 2013

    "In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, [Duck Dynasty star Phil] Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians. What Parks did was courageous. What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too."
    -- Illinois congressional candidate Ian Bayne

  • December 20, 2013

    "We're going to be the Miley Cyrus of nations next year. Unstoppable, but kind of embarrassing."
    -- David Brooks