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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 22, 2011

    "She lectures us on eating right, while she has a large posterior herself."
    -- Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner on Michelle Obama

  • December 21, 2011

    "We don't go after anybody. Actually, they go after me. They're demonstrating in front of my building, calling me every kind of name. If you want to talk about civil-rights violations, what about that?"
    -- Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, accused by the Justice Department of systemic discrimination against Latinos, including "unlawful stops, detentions, and arrests"

  • December 20, 2011

    "Proudly, Nancy and Ronnie Reagan are the closest analogy that I know of in terms of how we work together and try to do things together."
    -- Newt Gingrich on his marriage to Callista

  • December 19, 2011

    "Primary mission: advocate of civilization, definer of civilization, teacher of the rules of civilization, arouser of those who fan civilization, organizer of pro-civilization activists, leader (possibly) of the civilizing forces."
    -- notes re Gingrich, by Gingrich, 1997

  • December 16, 2011

    "That's one of the things that I like about him -- because he's been consistent since he changed his mind."
    -- Christine O'Donnell, endorsing Mitt Romney

  • December 15, 2011

    "A lot of people agree with me. They find it amazing, that out of -- that all of a sudden, miraculously, this birth certificate just appeared. People have questioned the birth certificate, and many people do still question it."
    -- Donald Trump, 12/5/11

  • December 14, 2011

    "Just like Reagan, I will tell the truth at the risk of causing some confusion with the timid."
    -- Newt Gingrich tweet

  • December 13, 2011

    "I'm not going to kiss his ring, and I'm not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy."
    -- Jon Huntsman on Trump

  • December 12, 2011

    "I'm surprised that Mitt Romney said 'no,'...Frankly, I'm surprised because he really wants my endorsement. I mean, he wants it very badly."
    -- Donald Trump

  • December 11, 2011

    "Something out of the Stalinist era."
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau