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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 06, 2012

    "When your degree hangs on the wall in a few years, will you tell your friends and family you bought the cheapest degree you could find?"
    what recruiters at University of Phoenix were instructed to say if a student prospect questioned the cost

    "Why would you not want to invest in yourself?"
    -- another prompt from the same recruiter's manual

  • August 03, 2012

    "I know who you are. You ruined our country!"
    -- A neighbor of Karl Rove, when Rove introduced himself on the street

  • August 02, 2012

     

    "32,229." -- Number of reported UFO sightings, 2000-2007

     

    "352." -- Number of deaths caused by lightning, 2000-2007

     

    "9." -- Number of possible occurrences of voter impersonation, 2000-2009

  • August 01, 2012

    "Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years."
    -- Senator Harry Reid, quoting a Bain investor about Romney

  • July 27, 2012

    "It is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter in the polls."
    -- from a Brennan Center of Justice report

  • July 26, 2012

    "An enormous and growing problem."
    -- Karl Rove, on illegal voting

    "Our democracy is under siege from an enemy so small it could be hiding anywhere."
    -- Stephen Colbert

  • July 25, 2012

    "There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today."
    -- Bill Clinton

  • July 24, 2012

    "I don't want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
    -- Conservative leader Paul Weyrich

  • July 23, 2012

    "Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: Done."
    -- PA state House Republican leader Mike Turzai on the year's legislative accomplishments

  • July 21, 2012

    "Six."
    -- number of books written by the cast of Jersey Shore

    "Fifty."
    -- percentage of those books written by Snooki