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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.

  • April 03, 2012

    Baltimore radio interviewer:
    "One of the things, Ann Romney, that folks talk about with your husband, Mitt Romney...Sometimes he comes off stiff..."

    Ann Romney:
    "Well, you know, I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out, because he's not!"

  • April 02, 2012

    "There is nothing wrong with asking the president of the United States for his birth certificate. I am tired of being called a racist."
    -- Missouri state Rep. Wanda Brown, defending bill which would require birth certificates to appear on the ballot for presidential and vice-presidential candidates

  • March 29, 2012

    "You can not rehabilitate the hoodie."
    -- Geraldo Rivera

  • March 28, 2012

    "Members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor."
    -- Rep. Gregg Harper, presiding in the House, just before declaring Rep. Bobby Rush out of order for his hoodied protest against racial profiling

  • March 27, 2012

    "One of the great blessings I've had in every political campaign is people underestimate me. They underestimate what God can do."
    -- Rick Santorum

  • March 26, 2012

    "Trudeau's attack is another sad example of the desperate, cold hearted, ill-formed, radical leftist elites in our country. No clear thinking intelligent person should be against our bill, not even a pro-abortion advocate."
    -- State Senator Dan Patrick, sponsor of the Texas mandatory sonogram bill

  • March 25, 2012

    "Even president Bill Clinton says in the [Dem campaign] film,'That's the call I would have made.'"
    -- Karl Rove, downplaying Obama's decision to go in after Osama bin Laden
    "He took the harder and the more honorable path. When I saw what had happened, I thought to myself, 'I hope that's the call I would have made.'"
    -- what Clinton actually said in the film

  • March 22, 2012

    "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape."
    -- State Senator Chuck Winder, sponsor of Idaho's mandatory ultrasound bill

  • March 21, 2012

    "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch a Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again."
    -- Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, asked if Romney tacking to the right in the primaries might hurt him in the general election

  • March 20, 2012

    "I know that you have to shelter under the cross to have any hope of having a full life."
    -- Newt Gingrich