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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.

  • December 06, 2010

    Oregon plays so fast that it is not uncommon for it to snap the ball just seven seconds into the 40-second play clock, long before defenses are accustomed to being set. That is so quick that opponents have no ability to substitute between plays and fans at home do not have time to run to the fridge.
    -- Pete Thamel, in NYT story about UofO Ducks and this flop video

  • December 05, 2010

    Am I doing interviews? I thought I got to talk to the nice people. And where's our music and where's our good enthusiasm?
    -- Sarah Palin, at a book signing, when the loud country music her handlers use to discourage press questions abruptly stopped

  • December 03, 2010

    I just tweet. That's the way I roll.
    -- Sarah Palin

  • December 01, 2010

    Yo being nice is my whole shit now.
    -- Kanye West, in a recent tweet

  • 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