Video: The obligatory “Tom Cruise/it’s come to this” post
posted at 1:15 pm on January 15, 2008 by Allahpundit
To answer the eternal question of whether he really is “that guy” he always plays in movies: Yep. Sure is.
Also an “authority on the mind,” don’tcha know.
Viewing this as an atheist and knowing that he might have an easier time with the electorate as a candidate than Hitchens would is, needless to say, bittersweet. Click the image to watch.
Update: If you’re pressed for time, at least watch the part starting about a third of the way through where he starts laughing. Then keep going to where he talks about how he wishes he could go on vacation.
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I’d sooner vote for an athiest than a Scientologist by a loooong shot.
Frozen Tex on January 15, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Hey, first comment, two posts in a row!
Frozen Tex on January 15, 2008 at 1:21 PM
For a self-professed authority on the mind, Cruise sure comes across as a self-absorbed egomaniac caught up in a web of highly improbable and, in any event, indemonstrable psychobabble.
Blacksheep on January 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Scientology is second only to Islam in terms of truly dangerous religious fanatics.
…a close second.
MadisonConservative on January 15, 2008 at 1:24 PM
The comments are GOLD!
Kini on January 15, 2008 at 1:24 PM
From the site’s author:
Heh.
amerpundit on January 15, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I’m stupid– what’s this KSW or KWS or whatever he’s talking about? And SP? Are they like, friends of Xenu or Xanadu or or something?
Pasalubong on January 15, 2008 at 1:25 PM
FREE KATIE!
Hannibal Smith on January 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM
In related news, the Church of Scientology has unveiled a new line of Tom Cruise cuckoo clocks……….
Hawkins1701 on January 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM
LOL
He is such a drama boy.
That was funny.
He’s not very bright, but he means no harm.
It’s no wonder he is such a great actor. He loves the drama! Oh, that was funny. Poor guy. I am embarrased for him and wish I never saw that.
bridgetown on January 15, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Talk about a self absorbed, egotistical loon!!! Get over yourself, Tom.
pullingmyhairout on January 15, 2008 at 1:28 PM
You know, I think I’m one of the few people in the world who actually likes Tom Cruise. I just can’t help it, he just seems like a nice dude. Yea, I know, Scientology totally weirds me out as well, but I just can’t freaking help it.
WillBarrett on January 15, 2008 at 1:28 PM
LOL Hannibal and Hawkins
bridgetown on January 15, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Nice production quality.
Vizzini on January 15, 2008 at 1:29 PM
I know what SP stands for. It stands for Suppressive Person. This describes people who discourage others to join $cientology.
I don’t know about you guys but I think Tom Cruise is the successor to David Miscavidge, the current leader of the Church of $cientology.
mram on January 15, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Half way through I had to wonder “What the hell is he talking about?”
amerpundit on January 15, 2008 at 1:30 PM
I’d like to make a pbj sandwich, …, but I can’t, …. because I know.
pedestrian on January 15, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Gracias, mram.
SECOND LOOK AT OPERATING THETANS!!!
Pasalubong on January 15, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Tom Cruise is second in command of his Church. He is developing Pope-like leadership skills and has the theological knowledge to fight the war between civiliations. Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee would approve.
ninjapirate on January 15, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Scientology is second only to Islam in terms of truly dangerous religious fanatics.
…a close second.
Okay, wait: upon what do you base this?
Who are the fanatical Scientologists, and what are they doing that’s “truly dangerous”?
I know that Scientology seems a little goofy, but which religion doesn’t to outsiders? For example, every Sunday my fellow Catholics and I get together and, literally, eat the body and drink the blood of Jesus Christ in a ritual that seems asinine, blasphemous and crazy to a lot of Protestants.
Yeah, Tom Cruise seems a little crazy, but he’s an actor. Crazy often goes hand in hand with actors (and I say that as an actor). Who’s to say that Scientology hasn’t made him saner rather than crazier compared to what he’d be like if he weren’t a Scientologist.
So far, I think it’s unfair to compare Scientologists to suicide bombers.
Kensington on January 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM
It seems to me that Cruise is an atheist,
unless thinking that you are all-powerful
qualifies as a religion.
The “Church” part of Church of Scientology
was just tacked on to achieve tax-exempt
status.
Mulligan on January 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM
SECOND LOOK AT TOM CRUISE FOR LEADER OF THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY!
sweeper on January 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM
With you there 100%!
The Muzzies chop off your head. The Scientologists chop off your bank account.
thejackal on January 15, 2008 at 1:35 PM
It’s like watching Derek Zoolander as a cultmember.
Vizzini on January 15, 2008 at 1:35 PM
I like Tom Cruise movies.
I will leave it at that.
BlackCapitalist on January 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Messiah Complex. Heh. They’re here to help.
When the Tom Cruise Fruit Punch comes out. Don’t drink it.
Xenu is watching…
ronsfi on January 15, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Better than Hitchens maybe, but only because Hitchens is kinda of an @ss to people who do believe in God.
Someone with Ayaan Hirshi Ali’s brand of atheism, especially her soft spoken nature, would easily beat out any Scientologist.
Esthier on January 15, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Sane person.
saint kansas on January 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM
I want to “create a new reality!”
Can someone give me Tom’s number? I mean he gives it out, right? He wants to help.
Rightwingsparkle on January 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM
What is “it” that he keeps going on and on about?
Pam on January 15, 2008 at 1:42 PM
KSW = Keep Scientology working.
Yes, they are a dangerous cult. Peoples lives have been harmed by them, criticize them enough and they will sue you or picket you. They had a government infiltration operation going on in the 70s.
Here is their sacred OT-3 text, they charge about 200,000 dollars to get to this point in their insane UFO cult before they tell you about it
The head of the Galactic
Confederation (76 planets around
larger stars visible from here)
(founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera)
solved overpopulation (250 billion
or so per planet — 178 billion on
average) by mass implanting.
He caused people to be brought to
Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2)
and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii
and the Atlantic Area ones to
Las Palmas and there “packaged.”
His name was Xenu. He used
renegades. Various misleading
data by means of circuits etc.
was placed in the implants.
When through with his crime Loyal Officers
(to the people) captured him
after 6 years of battle
and put him in an electronic
mountain trap where he still
is. “They” are gone. The place (Confed.)
has since been a desert.
firepilot on January 15, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Fanatic. No hyperbole.
I just watched a fanatic intoxicated with a vision of utopia, and full of ruthless notions he sees as “helping”. This guy looks dangerous to me. I don’t know how closely Scientology resembles Marxist Liberalism, but there are some common markers. Repellent and scary.
RushBaby on January 15, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Total gibberish. I only got half way through. It was nauseating.
infidel65 on January 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM
If there was EVUH a candidate for a personalized straitjacket and a private rubber room at the resident funny farm, it is Tommy Boy here! He’s flipped out right into the stratosphere!
pilamaye on January 15, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Is this how Huck voters see Romney?
snickelfritz on January 15, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Who Is The True Messiah? Cruise or Obama?
I’d bet 90% of all Scientologists don’t measure up in Cruise’s view and should ‘get out of the arena’.
“Sure I’m hard on myself, but everybody else sucks!“
rockbend on January 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM
How is Scientology a dangerous religion?
CABE on January 15, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Pyramid scheme cult.
infidel on January 15, 2008 at 1:48 PM
I always wondered why he dumped Nicole. She thought he was insane.
ctmom on January 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM
A quick Google turned this up regarding KSW:
This Policy Letter “Keep Scientology Working” [KSW] exists in all but introductory Scientology courses. It is there to inculcate reverence to Hubbard as the “Source” of Scientology, and to show the crucial role of the Scientologist’s mission on Earth.» — Jon Atack, in “A Piece of Blue Sky” (1990)
Rod on January 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Freaky. Looks like a snippet from Zoolander. He could pass for a twin except…I bet he can go left!
scottm on January 15, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Tho Mad seems to be stating an over-dramatic point…he is really not far off the mark, Kensington. If you do some research on these people you will find them meddling in governments around the world (see John Travolta, Bill Clinton and their attempted strong arm of Germany to recognize it as a religion), litigating anyone that disagrees and speaks out and much more sinister nonesense. They are not just religious zealots, they are Monstrously wealthy egomaniacal meddlers with designs on converting everyone. Unfortunately, they have so much money that it is not out of the realm of possibility. Islam only wishes they could intimidate like these scary buggers.
Let me see if I can dig up a site or two for you on it.
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Cruise, like Obama, can talk for hours without actually saying anything. What the hell was the idiot talking about? No wonder Nicole Kidman dumped him.
infidel65 on January 15, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Scientology makes weak minded souls money thralls. Celebrity husks draw rubes and are vacuous enough to swallow it all themselves.
BL@KBIRD on January 15, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Okay now he is ahead of Obama as the person who can best vocalize hundreds of words together that mean absolutely nothing.
Brat on January 15, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Creepy how alike our comments are!!!
Brat on January 15, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Good place to start:
http://www.xenu.net/
OPERATION CLAMBAKE
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Let’s not be overly dramatic, here. I don’t remember news stories about Scientologists blowing things and people up in the name of Scientology, or killing people because they mocked L. Ron Hubbard. :)
Midas on January 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Operation Clambake, great site for learning more about $cientology.
http://www.xenu.net/
Do you know why those dianetics commercials show the volcano erupting? Because that is supposed to stimulate memories in you from the eruptions in the Xenu story. Your body thetans were around for that, and are trapped in you, according to them.
firepilot on January 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM
I can’t imagine a world without Tom Cruise. It’s a natural high listening to him yammering about nothing in particular and then bursting out laughing as if to remove the tension in the air. Thanks, Tom. Thanks.
MarkoMancuso on January 15, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Check out the video from the Today Show when Tom Cruise totally intimidates Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer knows that Mr. Cruise does not know anything about how to practice medicine but he lets Mr. Cruise insult him and bully him. At the end of the interview, Mr. Lauer is pleading with Mr. Cruise: “Tom, I know you’ve done the homework…”. I actually felt sorry for Matt Lauer. BTW, there is a hilarious movie from about 5 years ago with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy spoofing a Scientology like cult.
Larraby on January 15, 2008 at 1:56 PM
No, instead they intimidate and litigate you out of existence. Do NOT underestimate these folks. Do the research.
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 1:56 PM
A fair question. There are so many books and web sites available to answer your question, I won’t even try. But, just to get you started,
1. How many “religions” do you know of that charge, eventually, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to reveal their “secret teachings?” Why do you only hear about the wealthy Scientologists like Cruise, Travolta, and Kirstie Alley? It isn’t because their celebrities. Only they can afford to rise high up in the ranks.
2. Get some books on cults, indoctrination procedures and learn to separate the myths from the facts regarding what is commonly called “mind control.” There are good books on this dating back to the 50s (also bad ones, so be careful).
Apart from its nefarious foundation, Scientology will do what all religions must do in order to survive and flourish: give the outward appearance of harmlessness and sanctimony.
Don’t. Be. Fooled. Given its relative youth as a religion, Scientology has a staggering suicide rate among its followers. And like Islam, it takes action against “dead agents,” which is what it calls its apostates.
thejackal on January 15, 2008 at 1:57 PM
their s/b they’re
dayyum!
thejackal on January 15, 2008 at 1:58 PM
L. Ron Hubbard was asked once about his science fiction work…
He said that writing would never get anyone anywhere. If someone were really smart they would invent their own religion.
Hmmmmmmm…sense a pattern here?
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Islamofacists may be strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up restaurants and markets to drive the infidel out, but Scientology is working to passively and gradually eliminate all religion.
This video is a great example of Number 2 getting on the soapbox and saying “no one knows better than a Scientoligist” in everything from raising your kids to how you think. I may be one of those “crazy Christians”, but this movement scares me as much as Obama – maybe a little more.
Signalfire_WI on January 15, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Has anyone bothered to ponder the fact that Scientology is a religion founded by L.Ron Hubbard, who was one of the great science fiction writers during what was known as the Golden Age Of Science Fiction? There’s your clue, Sherlock: a science-fiction writer starts a religion! Not even the great Isaac Asimov went that far!
pilamaye on January 15, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Okay…Scientology is financially dangerous. But they’re not a threat like radical Muslims.
I’m sure Atheists have a higher suicide rate than Scientologists?
CABE on January 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM
I just listened to this cavalcade of poo poo – He really didn’t say anything. I heard an avalanche of “you know”, “we can change things”, “now is the time”, “it’s our responsibility” and “we can effectively change people’s lives”. This sounds like typical mealy-mouthed socialist brainwashing propaganda. “We are the authorities on the mind, peace and happiness?” “We are the authorities on rehabilitating criminals.”Really? Really Tom. What’s the difference between what you are saying, and what Marx, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hillary and Obama are spouting?
The “Zenu” of Scientology = The “State” of Socialism.
NeoConSnakePlissken on January 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM
You’re making a foolish error to underestimate these guys. Do. The. Research.
I used to think just as you do, until I read up.
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Oh, and as a logophile and discourse adorer…Cruise said absolutely nothing.
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Did anyone else have the nearly undeniable urge to punch him in the nose while watching that??
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Not a threat like radical Islam? I certainly agree.
Atheists have a higher suicide rate than Scientologists? Remember Scientology hasn’t been around for very long. But if you consider how it has financially and emotionally ruined lives, the suicide comes as no surprise. And let’s remember we’re talking about “rate” not actual numbers. There are preposterously more atheists than Scientologists.
Seriously. A “religion” founded by a hack 3rd-rate sci-fi writer who openly admitted creating it for the money? Puh-lease!
thejackal on January 15, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I’m sure they’re extremely bizarre. But I think gambling is a far greater threat than Scientology. Only the weak-minded get brain-washed…and they may deserve it.
I just don’t see a threat from Scientology.
CABE on January 15, 2008 at 2:06 PM
What a self-righteous jackass.
Metro on January 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Then you’ve not done your homework. They are not harmless nutjobs, CABE.
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM
I just don’t see a threat from Scientology.
CABE on January 15, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Only if they do a movie sequel to “Battlefield Earth”.
The horror.
The horror.
pilamaye on January 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM
LOL. I still relish the fact that Travolta actually thought that would be a good film and a good indoctrinator for the masses.
Idiot.
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 2:11 PM
The Sands Casino doesn’t follow you around after you’re busted to find new ways to get your future income.
Scientology does, to most people, just appear to be a dip-stick religion for fruitcakes from Hollywood and the weak-minded. In large part, it is. With all due respect to your personal sensibilities, do some research on the anti-Scientology movement and find out what the multi-billion-dollar Scientology Church tries to keep you from hearing about. Learn what happened to the town of Clearwater, Florida. Dangerous? Yes!! Very dangerous.
thejackal on January 15, 2008 at 2:11 PM
To all the people claiming that Scientology isn’t a threat, obviously you’ve never been on the bad side of one. I’ve known people who have, particularly ones who have left the church.
The cult of Scientology is a severely and carefully brainwashed bunch of acolytes, generating a huge cash flow in order to pay for some very expensive Scientologist lawyers, who have used our court systems to target “suppressive persons” and carry out the “fair game” policy written up by Hubbard decades ago. They harass, intimidate, and terrify people who dare to speak out against them. Want a taste?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itujmcsinpw
The amount of this kind of material is staggering.
MadisonConservative on January 15, 2008 at 2:11 PM
http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/paulette_cooper/
tickleddragon on January 15, 2008 at 2:13 PM
If the Presidential election came down to Tom Cruise and the leader of the Taliban, I’d at least want to know the Taliban guy’s position on social security reform before making my decision.
Damian P. on January 15, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Excuse me, Mr. Cruise (since that isn’t your real name), what university granted your PhD in these studies? The University of Saint Craptacular?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Legend has it that he said this to Harlan Ellison. I don’t know if it’s true, but it certainly sounds true.
The entire text of Bare-Faced Messiah, a devastating biography of Hubbard, is available online:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm
Damian P. on January 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM
At the very least, to be a conservative and a Scientologist is a contradiction in terms. Or does anybody here think that your basic Scientologist has a molecule of respect for the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
thejackal on January 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Yeah, but this ain’t slashdot.
null on January 15, 2008 at 2:18 PM
To all those who just laugh off $cientology, google Xenu TV or type it in at YouTube. You’ll learn a lot. $cientology is the second most dangerous religion behind fundamentalist Islam. It’s so dangerous, the German government wants to actually ban it. And I wouldn’t be surprised if CAIR and other Muslim groups learnt legal tactics from the Church of $cientology.
mram on January 15, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Why don’t we all look at the South Park episode to enlighten us all on the true origins of Scientology. It worked for Mormons, no?
Just come out of the closet Tom!!!
Geronimo on January 15, 2008 at 2:22 PM
LMAO!!
Lan Astaslem on January 15, 2008 at 2:22 PM
That driving by an accident comment he made cracked me up because last week it was reported he stopped and helped some one having car problems over the holidays. I said to my mom, at the time, that I wondered if it was all a set-up for publicity because that was the third time in the last couple of years that I’d heard of him doing that!
deedledee on January 15, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Good lord,maybe our man Flint can do a secret spec.ops
to the tune of Secret Agent Man,and have Tom secured
in a deprogramming enviroment before Louis Farrakans
Mother ships find out that Tom is loose running amuck!
canopfor on January 15, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Why?
deedtrader on January 15, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I’ve heard that one too. With the embellishment that Hubbard created $cientology on a resulting bet.
X_LA_Native on January 15, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I wish he could go on vacation too. Permanently.
AZCoyote on January 15, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Sounds like any other run of the mill belief system zealot.
John Cunningham on January 15, 2008 at 2:32 PM
man…that dude is spooky. He doesn’t mind “putting his ethics into others”
egads!
spacekicker on January 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM
I like it when Cruise gets the 1000-yard stare when he says “We’re here to help.”
greenonions on January 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Don’t these Scientology types believe in that beastie in the refrigerator in the movie Ghostbusters? Zool is his name, right?
Sure–authorities of the mind. But of what kind of mind?
Liam on January 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM
A mind without a script is a terrible thing to waste. – I never thought I cared if the Writer’s strike ended.
The Zoo Keeper on January 15, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Yeah, but the Mormons had the last word in the Mormon episode.
BohicaTwentyTwo on January 15, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Um…no, but thanks anyway, Tom.
BacaDog on January 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Before I begin the video…Am I supposed to avoid looking Cruise in the eyes as I watch?
scatbug on January 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Wow. That sounds like a plot for a Doctor Who episode.
Freaky people, freaky little people.
Tom Cruse won’t come out of the closet!
Pulchritudinous Patriot on January 15, 2008 at 2:59 PM
LRH was a drugged up sci-fi writer at that. It’s really sad to see TC descend into total self-delusion. I can’t even watch Top Gun anymore…
misterspork on January 15, 2008 at 3:05 PM
You must avoid his gaze… lest you feel your free will slip away… and you’ll never be allowed to visit Germany again.
Frozen Tex on January 15, 2008 at 3:05 PM
It’s interesting that Tom Terrific and Mindbenders have much in common with the Truthers. Both have arisen out of a fictional work and have taken on lives of their own.
One can never underestimate the gullibility of a movie star.
Or a Troofer.
drjohn on January 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM
I think it’s strange the way he turned Katie Holmes into what Nicole Kidman used to be (ice princess).
MayBee on January 15, 2008 at 3:10 PM
I heard the sequel was going to be a musical call “Xenudoo”.
Zorg on January 15, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Related: I was looking around for the “Mindhead Institute” clip from Bowfinger. It used to be on YouTube. I know I saw it there not long ago.
No more.
Bowfinger’s a good one to Netflix, and it actually took some jabs at Scientology.
see-dubya on January 15, 2008 at 3:22 PM
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