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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.

  • January 13, 2011

    When you represent a district -- the home of the O.K. Corral and Tombstone, the town too tough to die -- nothing's a surprise.
    -- Rep. Gabriele Giffords, brushing off a 2009 incident in which a demonstrator's pistol fell out of his holster

  • January 13, 2011

    Yeah, the whole Tea Party.
    -- Spencer Giffords, asked if his daughter had any enemies

  • January 12, 2011

    What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country.
    -- Rush Limbaugh on Dems

  • January 11, 2011

    It's a surveyor's symbol.
    -- aide Rebecca Mansour, describing the crosshairs on a Sarah Palin electoral map posted in 2010

  • January 10, 2011

    Please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the Republic down.
    -- Glenn Beck in an email to Sarah Palin

  • January 09, 2011

    War and Peace...'The best of times and the worst of times'...
    -- RNC chairman Michael Steele, naming his favorite book, then paraphrasing the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities

  • January 07, 2011

    I'll tell you why [religion's] not a scam, in my opinion: tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication...It always comes in, and always goes out. You can't explain that.
    -- Bill O'Reilly

  • January 06, 2011

    Actually, Obama. He's not too bright. Someone's gotta knock some sense into that idiot.
    -- UFC mixed martial artist Jacob Volkmann, asked who he would like to face next

  • January 05, 2011

    I've been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think that I'm imitating Hitler
    -- Mussolini, quoted in a mistress' recently-published diary

  • January 03, 2011

    One of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.
    -- incoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa on Obama, later explaining that he meant to say "one of the most corrupt administrations in modern times"