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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.

  • June 03, 2011

    He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.
    -- Sarah Palin, visiting Boston's Old North Church, on Paul Revere

  • June 03, 2011

    There is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact...hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel prizes, believe in intelligent design.
    -- Michele Bachmann
    Forty-three Nobel Laureate scientists have endorsed our effort to repeal Louisiana's creationism law...Congresswoman Bachmann, you claim that Nobel Laureates support creationism. Show me your hand. If you want to be taken seriously by voters while you run for President, back up your claims with facts. Can you match 43 Nobel Laureates, or do you fold?
    -- Baton Rouge high school student Zach Kopplin

  • June 02, 2011

    I've never been good with numbers, but when I was on crack I could do math really, really well. I became a f***ing whiz at calculus. But I also became kind of psychotic, unfortunately.
    -- Courtney Love

  • June 01, 2011

    It's not a publicity-seeking tour.
    -- Sarah Palin, interviewed by Fox News aboard her 'One Nation' bus

  • May 31, 2011

    I'm not running for comedian-in-chief or entertainer-in-chief. I am not going to light my hair on fire and shoot sparks up my ears or whatever.
    -- Tim Pawlenty

  • May 29, 2011

    It was a good program, it was a legal program, it was not torture.
    -- Dick Cheney on waterboarding

  • May 27, 2011

    I worship the ground that Paul Ryan walks on.
    -- Dick Cheney

  • May 25, 2011

    Knowing how Washington works isn't necessarily an advantage. As a businessman going in, I don't want to know how Washington works. I want to change Washington, D.C. and so by not knowing how it is supposed to work I can ask tough questions that will help change the culture.
    -- Herman Cain, on running for president

  • May 25, 2011

    The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding...A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won't be intimidated by the political elite.
    -- Gingrich press secretary Rick Tyler, on media criticism of the former House Speaker

  • May 24, 2011

    The rapture definitely took place, but there just wasn't a soul worth saving so it went unnoticed. The world will still end in October, as planned.
    -- Harold Camping