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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.

  • September 19, 2012

    "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
    -- Mitt Romney on 47% of the American population

  • September 17, 2012

    "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them... These are people who pay no income tax."
    -- Mitt Romney, at a fundraiser earlier this year

  • September 17, 2012

    "A racist organization...An entity that was created for the sole purpose of killing children that look like mine."
    -- Rep. Tim Huelskamp, father of four adoptive children of African-American, Hispanic and Native American descent, on Planned Parenthood

  • September 14, 2012

    "Egyptians rise up to support Muhammad in front of the American Embassy."
    -- Brotherhood Arabic tweet

    "We're relieved none of @USEmbassyCairo staff were harmed and hope Eg relations will sustain turbulence of Tuesday's events."
    -- Brotherhood English tweet

    "Thanks. By the way, have you checked out your own Arabic feeds? I hope you know we read those too."
    -- U.S. Embassy tweet

  • September 13, 2012

    "After 9/11, I went out to look for terror cells in California and found them, piece of cake."
    -- Steve Klein, consultant on the anti-Muhammad film trailer "The Innocence of Muslims"

  • September 12, 2012

    "It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
    -- Mitt Romney

    "Obama sympathizes with attackers in Egypt. Sad and pathetic."
    -- RNC chairman Reince Priebus

  • September 11, 2012

    "During incredibly challenging times, he kept us safe."
    -- Jeb Bush, about George W. Bush, August 30, 2012

    "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
    -- Presidential Daily Brief, August 6, 2001

    "All right, you've covered your ass now."
    -- George W. Bush, to the CIA briefer who warned him about an imminent bin Laden strike, August 6, 2001

  • September 10, 2012

    "I think the Democrats had more appropriate people to the party than the Republicans did."
    -- Donald Trump, who was bumped as a Republican Convention speaker

  • September 08, 2012

    "I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name. How does he even know my name?...I think it's funny he even knows my name."
    -- Sarah Palin on John Kerry

  • September 07, 2012

    "It wasn't the weather. They knew what the weather was going to be months ago. This was clearly a response to the fear of a sea of empty seats."
    -- Charles Krauthammer, on why Democrats moved Obama's acceptance speech indoors