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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 10, 2012

    "Who was it who played 'The Star-Spangled Banner'...at the Woodstock Festival?"
    -- Jane Fonda

  • June 07, 2012

    "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."
    -- Mitt Romney, 2007

    "It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam, but nor did I take any actions to remove myself from the pool of young men who were eligible for the draft."
    -- Mitt Romney, who sought and received four draft deferments, 1994

  • June 05, 2012

    "It makes absolutely no sense. [It] is anything but socialist. It's bailing out for-profit companies."
    -- Greg Pason, Socialist Party USA national secretary, on Obama's health care overhaul

  • June 01, 2012

    "The most overrated political commentator of all time. Strictly third rate."
    -- Donald Trump, on George Will, 2012

    "This guy is totally overrated. A third-rate talent."
    -- Donald Trump, on Garry Trudeau, 1988

  • May 30, 2012

    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Kurt Anderson
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Rosie O'Donnell
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on David Letterman
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Les Moonves
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Karl Rove
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Ari Fleischer
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Sascha Baron Cohen
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Gov. Ed Rendell
    "    Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Seth Myers
    "    Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Gloria Allred

  • May 29, 2012

    "A bunch of lying scum."
    -- Fox News president Roger Ailes on New York Times reporters

  • May 23, 2012

    "Come on, Mitt, think."
    -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, on Romney's assertion that Russia is the U.S.'s number one geopolitical foe

  • May 22, 2012

    "He was a happy-go-lucky guy. He was a leader of the prankster group. So what?... I think in terms of politics, if this is the worst thing that the American people find out about Mitt Romney in the next five months, he is going to be a very happy man."
    -- WSJ opinion page editor Paul Gigot

  • May 21, 2012

    "President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine [of no more big government] in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and birpartisanship. It's enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons. Probably, it runs much deeper than that."
    -- Mitt Romney

  • May 18, 2012

    "I'm not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was."
    -- Mitt Romney, standing by his earlier comment that Obama wanted to make America "a less Christian nation"