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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.

  • December 15, 2012

    "Americans have an egalitarian approach to inequality: they want everyone to have an equal chance to become bettter off than everyone else."
    -- Louis Menand

  • December 14, 2012

    "He thinks ideologically: 'I must cripple the capitalist class; I must cripple the business owners; I must destroy the free enterprise system in America.'"
    -- Pat Robertson on President Obama

  • December 13, 2012

    "I'm telling you, Barack Hussein Obama has got to have a teleprompter because he fried his brain on drugs."
    -- former Texas GOP chair Cathie Adams

  • December 11, 2012

    "A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it may be."
    -- GOP consultant Scott Tranter

  • December 10, 2012

    "I'm not advocating violence, but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell."
    -- Depeche Mode guitarist Martin Gore

  • December 09, 2012

    "One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It's the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It's the first thing you hear when you're born -- or before you're born -- and it's the last thing you hear."
    -- Dave Brubeck, RIP

  • December 08, 2012

    "Can anyone even imagine how the press would have reacted if Fox News hosts and conservative personalities had stopped by the Bush White House to discuss policy? They would have been rightly outraged."
    -- Laura Ingraham newsletter on MSNBC anchors meeting with Obama

    "The New York Times reported in October 2006 that Bush hosted a group of conservative personalities including Ingraham, Fox News host Sean Hannity (who also met with Bush at the White House the following year), and Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher.
    -- Erik Hananoki of Media Matters for America

  • December 06, 2012

    "Bacon is truly the marijuana of meats."
    -- Keith Knight

  • December 03, 2012

    "The Grinch is trying to steal our holiday...The atheists don't like our happiness. They don't want you to be happy...They're miserable, so they want you to be miserable. They want to steal your holiday away from you."
    -- Pat Robertson on the 'War on Christmas'

  • November 30, 2012

    "I think what this fellow is tapping into...is the fact that people don't want any meaning right now. It is just sort of like a drug and that seems to be what most people seem to want right now. Not reality, not feeling, not meaning. The meaning is that it means nothing."
    -- Fox News psychiatrist Keith Ablow on PSY's 'Gangnam Style'