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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.

  • May 10, 2012

    "Bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view."
    -- Senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock, winner of the Indiana GOP primary

  • May 08, 2012

    "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."
    -- Mitt Romney, 2008

    "Bailout of enterprises that are in trouble, that's not the way to go. I know President Bush started it with the auto industry. I thought it was a mistake."
    -- Mitt Romey, 2009

    "I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back."
    -- Mitt Romney, 2012

  • May 08, 2012

    "There is a wild and crazy man inside there."
    -- Ann Romney on husband Mitt

  • May 07, 2012

    Total advertising revenue of the U.S. newspaper industry in 2011: $23,900,000,000.

    Of Google: $36,500,000,000.

    -- from May 2012 Harper's Index

  • May 03, 2012

    "I'm not totally certain I will get to the moon colony."
    -- Newt Gingrich, finally suspending his campaign

  • May 01, 2012

    "Take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business."
    -- Mitt Romney

    "A critical, early $10 million."
    -- Mitt and Ann Romney's investment in their son Tagg's private equity fund, according to a New York Times account

  • May 01, 2012

    "Trudeau Doonesbury's mad at Oreilly so he takes a cheap shot at me - assh*le."
    -- Geraldo Rivera, in recent tweet

  • April 30, 2012

    "We're being held in a laundry room deep inside building - I need to get outside!"
    -- tweet from Geraldo Rivera during a recent Taliban attack in Kabul

  • April 27, 2012

    "You get these blogs out there, you know, Bottomfeeder, Buzzsaw, Buzzfeed, whatever they are, and they take a sentence out of context and it becomes a headline and pretty soon mainstream newspapers pick up on that."
    -- Jon Huntsman

  • April 25, 2012

    "We're going to do everything we can to make sure that [Romney] is, in fact, effective and that we as a team are effective both in winning this fall and then, frankly, in governing."
    -- Newt Gingrich, on ending his campaign