Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Holy crap! I just saw a segment of Cruise's "Today" interview.

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU
 
elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:43 PM
Original message
Holy crap! I just saw a segment of Cruise's "Today" interview.
Anybody wanna explain that one to me?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:44 PM
Response to Original message
1. Y'know...
up to now it really hasn't interested me what he's done... I just don't care.

But now I'm getting curious. x(
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Debbi801 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:48 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. Here's the transcript...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8343367/

Check out page 2 and 3, especially. His arrogance is incredible! What a total ass.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:54 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. Heheh...
I'm not *that* curious. :P

Thanks, though!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:59 PM
Response to Reply #5
11. Wow!! I am glad,though, that Matt
just didn't let it slide. Matt had some very valid points and he told Tom, but like he said, they could talk in circles all day. Tom thinks it is his way and his way only!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:17 PM
Response to Reply #11
27. Hey, maybe Tom Cruise should be president!
He's starting to sound just like Chimpy.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:02 PM
Response to Reply #5
15. Psychiatry is 'pseudo-science'? What a total POS.
If he actually studied what he says he studied, he would understand that anti-depressant medications replace a missing component in one's brain. You can't 'will' yourself out of chronic depression.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:03 PM
Response to Reply #15
16. But he said there is no such thing as chemical imbalance.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:06 PM
Response to Reply #16
20. Oh, you're right. my bad.
That seals the deal for me. He is awful.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:15 PM
Response to Reply #20
25. Yeah! I wonder where he got his medical degree?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 05:24 PM
Response to Reply #5
39. "I think he's the greatest storyteller cinema has ever known."
Spielberg?!!!!

Cruise is DUMBER than a box of rocks.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 06:22 PM
Response to Reply #5
42. Why does this stuff air and suck away my valuable energy?....
:evilgrin:

I love life too much to listen to the ramblings of either Tom Cruise or Matt Lauer. :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
borlis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:45 PM
Response to Original message
2. My sister told me she heard about it
and that Cruise is claiming to be an expert on Psychology. I think he is a major lunatic.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. WTF?
:wtf:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:46 PM
Response to Original message
3. Drudge has the full transcript up.
Yowzers!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:49 PM
Response to Original message
6. Psychiatry is a pseudo-science ? WTF is Scientology, then ?
No, wait ... don't answer that ... :freak:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #6
32. Well, there is an "S-C-I-E-N" in "Science" and also in "Scientology"...
and a "P-S" in "Psychiatry" and in "Psuedo" so there you go!

The idiot probably read one pamphlet printed up by Scientolgy Press about the subjec, and therefore considers himself an expert on the subject.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
distantearlywarning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 03:13 PM
Response to Reply #6
37. Reminds me of
that fundie idiot in Kansas who called evolution a "fairy tale" a week or two back.

Pot, meet kettle.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:49 PM
Response to Original message
7. I can't believe Matt would take that crap and
Edited on Fri Jun-24-05 01:51 PM by Rick Myers
NOT mention Scientology!!!

On edit: He did mention it briefly at the very end
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:04 PM
Response to Reply #7
18. I think it's great that Matt finally got slapped around a bit.....
Talk about an arrogant bastard....Matt Lauer is right up there with the chimp in that department.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 04:57 PM
Response to Reply #18
38. I am too.
Matt or Tom ... hmmm ... which one is more of an arrogant little prick?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 10:53 PM
Response to Reply #18
43. I sure agree. On KOEB, last night, somebody posted that Tom Cruise
is the only one who could make Matt Lauer look sane.:crazy:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:51 PM
Response to Original message
8. For a "two-time" loser in the marriage dept
he's the last one to give advice..

He has the "short-man" syndrome..He's insecure, and has to be over-the-top, and call attention to himself .

Acting is a narcissistic occupation anyway, and he's O.D.ed on it..

He needs to go away for a while.. I am bored with him..(never liked him much to start with)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:51 PM
Response to Original message
9. Cruise supports his legally racketeering loons.
Who needs to spend $100,000 to follow a religion..errr...money-hungry sect?

Poor Holmes.....so young and so...naive.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. Closer to
$750,000, probably up near $1m these days.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:59 PM
Response to Original message
12. Ugh
Nobody is allowed to question Tom about his beliefs, but he can judge and criticize Brooke Shields all he wants. Because he's Tom Cruise, that's why!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #12
26. Well he IS an expert on the "history of psychiatry" !
We mortals would surely see how correct he is if we just understood the "history of psychiatry" as well as he does. :sarcasm:

In fact if we understood it as well as he claims to we would readily confuse psychology with psychiatry as he does.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:02 PM
Response to Original message
14. idiot, this is the problem when we make stars heroes
he probably has a very low IQ or very limited exposure.

Scientology has always been against psychiatry/psychology. It attracts a lot of nuts who think this will heal them where more conventional means did not.

Dumb, uneducated idiot. (I love where he says over and over "you don't know the history of psychology". What the hell does the history of psychology have to do with anything? And if he knows, why doesn't he tell us? I have a cousin who has very limited intellect. He read a book (historical fiction) about Richard the Lionhearted or someone. Now (and for years) every subject of discussion ends with "well, this is all covered in such and such a book, its all there, the answers are all there." Ask what the answer is? He says, read the book. Like a religion for atheists dummies.

Idiots.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:04 PM
Response to Original message
17. Damn we were *this* close to having no Tom Cruise threads on page 1
THIS close

All I heard was Lauer saying that to some people it was pretty strange.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #17
19. I'm usually not that interested in the eccentricities of Mr. Cruise
but this interview had my "what the fuck?" meter running in the red.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:08 PM
Response to Reply #19
22. I just printed the transcript
going to read it on break
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:07 PM
Response to Original message
21. It just doesn't add up
He seems like a perfectly normal guy till he gets to this subject (Scientology) and then he's just a lunatic. He's right and everyone else is wrong. I don't think much of psychiatry either, but trying to deal with severe depression without meds and counseling is dangerous.

He obviously doesn't have a clue about postpartum depression. If they get married and have children and Katie has PPD, she's in deep shit.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:08 PM
Response to Original message
23. I've read that Scientology leaders are rather controlling...
I wonder if they'll start to reign him in, now that he's becoming a laughing stock and bringing them negative publicity?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:14 PM
Response to Original message
24. Pompus asshole.
His fucking mug was on every magazine when I was the store.

Made me want to :puke: !!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
mwdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #24
28. I was looking forward to "War of the Worlds",
I'm a movie buff, & I loved the original when I was a kid. But now, I dunno if I want to see this or any other movie he'll be promoting in the future.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Catfight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:20 PM
Response to Original message
29. Tom's sperm is as useless as his brain. He's just flaky and weird. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:20 PM
Response to Original message
30. He says he's done the research...so we must take his comments as fact!
Cruise: No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.

<snip>

Cruise: But what happens, the antidepressant, all it does is mask the problem. There's ways, vitamins and through exercise and various things... I'm not saying that that isn't real. That's not what I'm saying. That's an alteration of what I'm saying. I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer, these drugs are very dangerous. They're mind-altering, antipsychotic drugs. And there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't end up in a brave new world. The thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation, okay. And she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry. She doesn't understand in the same way that you don't understand it, Matt.

<snip>

Cruise: Matt. Matt, Matt, you don't even — you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, okay? That's what I've done. Then you go and you say where's the medical test? Where's the blood test that says how much Ritalin you're supposed to get?

Lauer: It's very impressive to listen to you. Because clearly, you've done the homework. And you know the subject.

Cruise: And you should. And you should do that also. Because just knowing people who are on Ritalin isn't enough. You should be a little bit more responsible in knowing really —

<snip>

Cruise: It's very — and you know what? You're here on the "Today" show.

Lauer: Right.

Cruise: And to talk about it in a way of saying, "Well, isn't it okay," and being reasonable about it when you don't know and I do, I think that you should be a little bit more responsible in knowing what it is.


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

How does Katie deal with his EGO?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:22 PM
Response to Reply #30
31. Katie is a naive groupie turned actress
a good match.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #31
34. and she has enough money to get 'clear' n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
newportdadde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:28 PM
Response to Original message
33. I think we need Tom to interview Republicans..
Hell he is grilling Mat lol
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #33
35. Let's ask him to post Scientology Truths on the walls of every school
in the name of Religious freedom! Then ask him why he won't do it!
:rofl:

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 03:05 PM
Response to Reply #35
36. those truths are Pay-per-View
Xenu needs the cash.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 06:02 PM
Response to Original message
40. As long as SOMEONE is smacking around that smarmy prick Lauer
I don't care who it is or even if they're right! :bounce:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 06:17 PM
Response to Original message
41. I happened to see it this morning while getting ready for work.
My reaction? He's nuts! He's a whacko! He's so deep into the Scientology shit, he's a goner. Unlike many folks on DU, I never had a problem with him before. I really don't give a shit about celebrities' personal lives. But man, this made me shake my head and it DID affect my opinion of him.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Fri Dec 27th 2024, 05:06 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC