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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 19, 2011

    In a stunning development one day after the release of Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama in not Eligible to be President, by Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farh has announced plans to recall and pulp the entire 200,000 first printing of the book.
    -- satirical piece in Esquire
    We are exploring our legal options...I don't know who Esquire's anonymous sources are, but I can only guess that their address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
    -- Farah in response, thinking the story was serious

  • May 18, 2011

    Omar [bin Laden] wrote that he had lost faith in his father as a young adult in war-ravaged Afghanistan when Osama suggested that he and his brothers consider taking up suicide bombing in the Taliban's cause. The boys demurred; Omar never got over the request. "My father," he wrote "hated his enemies more than he loved his sons."
    -- from recent New Yorker article

  • May 17, 2011

    So, I make you this promise: that I will continue to voice my opinions loudly and help to shape our politician's [sic] thoughts.
    -- Donald Trump

  • May 16, 2011

    Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama.
    -- Mike Huckabee

  • May 14, 2011

    SEAL Team 6.
    -- phrase for which Disney recently submitted a trademark application

  • May 12, 2011

    I had a major hand and play in this wonderful thing, getting him out of the mountains and down to the valleys. Someone had to get him out of there. That's where I came in. I scared the squirrel out of his hole, he popped his head up and he got capped...He hadn't been living [in the Abbottabad compound] for no damn six years. I absolutely flushed him out.
    -- Gary Faulkner, the OBL-hunting sword-wielding American arrested in Pakistan last summer, trying to make the case that he should receive some of the $25 million reward money

  • May 10, 2011

    Osama bin Laden is dead! Happy days! Happy days, everybody! This is the greatest night of my career!
    -- Geraldo Rivera, confirming that even the death of Osama bin Laden is about him

  • May 09, 2011

    The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations. We also know that of the 200,000... approximately half have a high school diploma or GED...
    -- from a recent report

  • May 06, 2011

    Probably the most important moment maybe in American history.
    -- Condoleezza Rice on President Bush at Ground Zero

  • May 05, 2011

    A similar death and a similar taking away...The question comes down to this: what will you say to that next generation about what you did to make sure that wouldn't be their fate?
    -- Michele Bachmann on taxes and the Holocaust