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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 23, 2011

    Things are fine in Libya.
    -- Saif al-Islam, son of Col. Muammar Gaddafi

  • August 23, 2011

    The Crotch.
    -- Rick Perry's nickname as a Texas state legislator because he adjusted himself so much

  • August 22, 2011

    Sure, Perry has created thousands of jobs. I'm working three of them.
    -- joke currently circulating in Texas

  • August 21, 2011

    My husband said, now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law. Tax law. I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive.' Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands. Never had a tax course in my background, never had a desire for it, but by faith, I was going to be faithful to what I thought God was calling me to do through my husband.
    -- Rep. Michele Bachmann

  • August 20, 2011

    What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide. I don't think it's a good idea for government to come down on one side of one scientific issue or another, when there is reasonable doubt.
    -- Michele Bachmann
    I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one is right.
    -- Rick Perry, on teaching both creationism and evolution in schools

  • August 19, 2011

    I dunno, you need to ask him.
    -- Gov. Rick Perry, asked if he thinks President Obama loves his country

  • August 18, 2011

    We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino's association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image.
    -- press release about Jersey Shore's "The Situation" from Abercrombie & Fitch, which recently introduced push-up bikini tops for eight-year-old girls

  • August 17, 2011

    If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don't know what you all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas...Printing more money to play politics...is almost treasonous.
    -- Rick Perry on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke

  • August 16, 2011

    It takes balls to execute an innocent man.
    -- a Texas voter from a focus group commenting on a questionable execution approved by Gov. Rick Perry

  • August 14, 2011

    I'm doing this because they call us criminals.
    -- London looter to photographer