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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.

  • September 25, 2013

    "We'd be hard pressed to explain why we were opposed to a bill we were in favor of."
    -- Sen. Mitch McConnell on Cruz filibuster

  • September 24, 2013

    "Was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their hangman nooses, and all that -- sort of like what we did in the Deep South [decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong."
    -- AIG CEO Robert Benmosche, on the uproar over using bailout money for bonuses

  • September 23, 2013

    "Among those who oppose Obamacare, only 30 percent say they understand it, while 69 percent say they don't. But among those who support Obamacare, 45 percent understand it while 53 percent don't."
    -- from Greg Sargent analysis of recent Washington Post / ABC News poll

  • September 20, 2013

    "Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy... And he was going around, jumping around saying 'Winning, winning, we're winning!' Well I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I'm not on any drugs."
    -- Sen. Rand Paul

  • September 19, 2013

    "It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent."
    -- Pope Francis on abortion, gay marriage, and contraception

  • September 19, 2013

    “The front we’re fighting at now is not a front where the Syrian army is at war with the people. [....] The current war in Syria is that of Islam versus the nonbelievers. Good versus evil. We are ‘good’ because Iran’s supreme leader is on our side. The front is supported by Hezbollah. The fighters are Iranian, Hezbollah, the Iraqi and Afghan mujahadeen and others. The opponents are Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, funded by the Emirates. Plus America, England, France and Europe.”
    -- Iranian commander

  • September 16, 2013

    "New shooting at the Navy headquarters in Washington -- Lone shooter and 7 corpses. No one is surprised. American exceptionalism."
    -- Russian parliament member Alexey Pushkov, in a tweet

  • September 12, 2013

    "Come talk to me, Obama. I don't hate your guts."
    -- Dennis Rodman, offering to be a diplomatic conduit to Kim Jung-un

  • September 11, 2013

    "Twelve years after we were attacked by al-Qaeda, twelve years after 3,000 Americans were killed by al-Qaeda, President Obama now asks us to be allies with al-Qaeda."
    -- Sen. Rand Paul

  • September 10, 2013

    "We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed here for the people in Egypt. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We are not for them. We remember who caused 9/11 in America. We remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave Americans."
    -- Rep. Michele Bachmann, in Egypt