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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.

  • November 30, 2010

    They're not going to let red and green into the classroom...How do you equate red and green with Jesus?...Take away the nativity scene and now you're going to take away red and green?
    -- Gretchen Carlson on Fox & Friends, reporting a false story about a Florida elementary school banning Christmas colors. Five years ago Bill O'Reilly was forced to retract a similar false report about a school in Texas.

  • November 29, 2010

    I recently won in court to stop my book 'America by Heart' from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?
    -- Sarah Palin, tweeting

  • November 29, 2010

    We had the greatest generation. I think this is the greediest generation.
    -- Alan Simpson on reaction to Debt Commission proposals to reduce national debt

  • November 26, 2010

    This is stemming from, I think, a greater problem when we're all sitting around asking 'Oh no, what are we gonna do,' and we're not having a lot of faith that the White House is gonna come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea's gonna do.
    -- Sarah Palin

  • November 25, 2010

    I think she's very happy in Alaska -- and I hope she'll stay there.
    -- Barbara Bush, on Sarah Palin
    I think the majority of Americans don't want to put up with the blue bloods. And I say it with all due respect because I love the Bushes.
    -- Sarah Palin, in response

  • November 23, 2010

    Do you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can't sing but are deluded enough to get up in front of a national audience and screech out a song anyway?
    -- Sarah Palin, in her new book

  • November 21, 2010

    Sometimes dictators have good ideas.

    -- failed GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle, on Augusto Pinochets's privatization of Chilean social security

  • November 18, 2010

    We were just trying to get rid of all the marijuana.

    -- Pfc. Ramone Hollins, after he and two other soldiers were arrested for breaking into a Colorado pot dispensary

  • November 18, 2010

    The entire Cabinet, meeting at the White House for the first time since the terrorist attacks, stood and applauded when President Bush entered the room. Caught by surprise, Bush choked up for a moment, the second time in two days he had lost his composure in front of others.

    -- Bob Woodward, in "Bush at War"

    I began my first Cabinet meeting since the terrorist attacks. As I stepped into the room, the team broke out in sustained applause. I was surprised, and I choked up at their heartfelt support. The tears flowed for the second time in two days.

    -- George W. Bush, in "Decision Points"

  • November 17, 2010

    'We should remain optimistic that diplomacy and international pressure will succeed in disarming the regime.' The President paused. 'But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.'

    -- General Tommy Franks, in "American Soldier"

    'We should remain optimistic that diplomacy and international pressure will succeed in disarming the regime,' I said at the end of the meeting. 'But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.'

    -- George W. Bush, in "Decision Points"