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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 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

  • April 22, 2012

    "I'm not going to be intimidated by a bunch of bullshit."
    -- WVa Senatorial candidate John Raese, rejecting criticism for his comparing smoking regulations with Hitler's treatment of Jews

  • April 20, 2012

    "Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care. In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, President Obama -- with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda -- now seems intent on following a similar path."
    -- Illinois Bishop Daniel Jenky