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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.

  • February 13, 2012

    "We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go...We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it...Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen..."
    -- Grover Norquist at CPAC

  • February 12, 2012

    "You were definitely a bit shy of the perfection we've come to expect. I hope you're okay!"
    -- a commenter on the Facebook page of Callista Gingrich's hair

  • February 10, 2012

    "Like watching a cruel experiment involving baboons, laughing gas and a forklift."
    -- Matt Taibbi on GOP race

  • February 09, 2012

    "I would screw them out and send the interns out to get me some of those good Edison lightbulbs. And those interns would come back sometimes empty-handed in tears, because they couldn't come up with a regular Edison light-bulb."
    -- Rep. Steve King on energy-saving bulbs installed by House Office building janitors, who he referred to as then-speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Stasi troops"

  • February 08, 2012

    "I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate."
    -- Michele Bachmann

  • February 06, 2012

    "If it's an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room. I would give them a shot of estrogen."
    -- Ron Paul, to CNN

  • February 06, 2012

    "Once they have a nuclear weapon, let me assure you, you will not be safe, even here in Missouri."
    -- Rick Santorum on Iran

  • February 03, 2012

    "He's going to lose. He doesn't resonate, you know?"
    -- Donald Trump on Mitt Romney, last April
    "It's my honor, real honor, to endorse Mitt Romney."
    -- Donald Trump, yesterday

  • February 02, 2012

    "I'm concerned about the poor in this country. We have to make sure the safety net is strong..."
    -- Mitt Romney, several weeks ago
    "I'm not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there..."
    -- Mitt Romney, yesterday

  • January 30, 2012

    "I actually think the right independent could win... It's not something I want to do... But if I don't see a person that, number one, is going to win -- that's tantamount -- I would certainly think about doing it after the show ends... I hope I don't have to. But I may -- absolutely. The number one thing for me is this country. Our country is in a lot of trouble. So I may. I hope I don't have to."
    -- Donald Trump, putting the country on notice