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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.

  • August 02, 2013

    "I'm going to be a successful mayor because of it, because it's going to give me a level of independence."
    -- Anthony Weiner on sexting scandal

  • August 01, 2013

    "For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds -- and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act."
    -- Rep. Steve King, on illegal immigrants and the DREAM Act

  • July 31, 2013

    "You can quibble about beginnings, middles, and ends, but what we're talking about is over a year ago."
    -- Anthony Weiner, asked if he is still sexting

  • July 30, 2013

    "Who am I to judge?"
    -- Pope Francis, on gay priests

  • July 28, 2013

    "You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?"
    -- Fox News' Lauren Green to religious scholar Reza Aslan

    "Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also just happens to be a Muslim. It's not that I'm just some Muslim writing about Jesus. I am an expert with a Ph.D. in the history of religions."
    -- Aslan

    "It still begs the question. Why would you be interested in the founder of Christianity?"
    -- Green

  • July 10, 2013

    "Cheap student loans keep people out of the labor market. This is a dangerous spiral."
    -- Tucker Carlson

  • July 04, 2013

    "If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong."
    -- Dennis Rodman

  • July 03, 2013

    "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it."
    -- Gen. Pickett, asked why his charge at Gettysburg failed

  • July 02, 2013

    "Jesus wept...Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of CA and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all."
    -- former Gov. Mike Huckabee on DOMA decision

  • July 01, 2013

    "I do not believe that as a member of that body I should allow someone to make comments such as he was preparing to make that ultimately were just open rebellion against what the word of God has said, what God has said, and just open rebellion against God's law."
    -- Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, on refusing to allow openly gay Rep. Brian Sims to speak about the DOMA ruling on the House floor