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Tom Cruise spars with Matt Lauer on 'Today'

Posted on 06/24/2005 11:51:03 AM PDT by gamarob1

NEW YORK - Tom Cruise was all smiles talking about his movie and his fiancee on NBC’s “Today” show, but the smile disappeared when Matt Lauer mentioned Cruise’s earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants.

Cruise got very serious and kept saying “Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt” every time Lauer said he knew people who were helped by anti-depressants.

Shields took them for her post-partum depression. As a Scientologist, Cruise doesn’t believe in those kinds of drugs or therapy of any kind.

At one point Cruise told Lauer, “You’re glib” and said Lauer didn’t know what he was talking about. The star launched into a detailed discussion of the use of the prescription drug Ritalin.

“It's very impressive to listen to you,” Lauer replied, “because clearly, you've done the homework. And you know the subject.”

“And you should,” Cruise retorted. He also told Lauer, “You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.”

The NBC anchor told Cruise he had known people who had been helped by psychiatric drugs. Cruise then accused Lauer of advocating the use of Ritalin.

Lauer asked Cruise how he could get more people to understand Scientology, the controversial religion practiced by Cruise and other celebrities like John Travolta.

“You just communicate about it," Cruise said. “If I want to know something, I go and find out. Because I don't talk about things that I don't understand.”

full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/


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To: gamarob1

Hey, you wanna see a total Tom Cruise meltdown, let him be interviewed by Charles Krauthammer. Before becoming a political commentator, Charles was a psychiatrist. Just let 'ol raving lunatic Tom try this nonsense with him!


101 posted on 06/24/2005 1:15:28 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
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To: shattered
Did you find what I said funny?

Did you see Shields on Oprah?

One hour of horrific details about how she contemplated killing her child and herself, what kind of knives she would use, how many pills, how high a ledge.

Sixty minutes of brutal psychopathy. And all the while that great child expert, Ms. Winfrey, is holding her hand and nodding.

Brooke Shields had cancer, and endured massive hormone manipulation for her in-vitro pregnancy. No wonder she was frazzled.

But to imply, as Shields clearly did, that all women are at risk from her kind of dementia is ignorant, cruel and self-serving.
102 posted on 06/24/2005 1:15:33 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: JellyJam

All the "facts" and "knowledge" he has on psychiatry is the muck fed to him by the Scientologists. He has gone around before spouting half-truths and other lies about psychiatry supported by Scientology.


103 posted on 06/24/2005 1:16:41 PM PDT by Aleighanne
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To: My Favorite Headache
Ah yes, TAPS! I think you've pinpointed it, my friend. (Although there's always the possibility that he lost it in LOSIN' IT.)
104 posted on 06/24/2005 1:19:20 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Guillermo
I thought the consensus around here was that America was over-medicated on psychotropic drugs, and that too many children were on amphetamines like Ritalin.

I won't argue with that, but I also don't want to hear about it from the likes of Tom Cruise, with his gerbil-sized IQ and his whacked-out pseudo-religion.

105 posted on 06/24/2005 1:23:20 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: My Favorite Headache

There`s something we have not yet seen here about Mr.Cruise..Nobody would be so foolish to destroy a multi-mill career like this. He says "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance." Is he kidding me? Maybe Mr. Cruise should talk to diabetics. I don`t think "L.Ron" is going to be able to show diabetics how to mentally create insulin.


106 posted on 06/24/2005 1:23:24 PM PDT by EdHallick (It`s time to play the feeuuud! "Name something evil" "Hitlery" ..Good answer good answer "Survey say)
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To: gamarob1
"Because I don't talk about things that I don't understand.”

So tell us, Tom...when the hell are you going to STFU?

Sorry, folks, I'm sick of this guy. Him and that damn Geldof...

107 posted on 06/24/2005 1:25:08 PM PDT by grellis (FEMININE-ist)
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To: ClearCase_guy

lol!! That`s my theory about this whole Tom Cruise thing. He thinks Scientology can cure him of being a homo gay, and the reason he got so excited on Oprah was not because he met this girl, but because he thinks he is cured. I bet you he did a Tony Perkins, he popped his wad for the first time in his life with a girl.


108 posted on 06/24/2005 1:30:41 PM PDT by EdHallick (It`s time to play the feeuuud! "Name something evil" "Hitlery" ..Good answer good answer "Survey say)
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To: SMARTY

"Sounds like the babbling idiot Tom has the attention span and intellectual depth of a cocker spaniel."


Hey, hey! Whatcha got against poor little cocker spaniels? Once owned one named Henry who was anything but stoopid. Okay, so he was probably schizophrenic -- at least he was entertaining. Far more so than Tommy-boy.

My guess is T-boy has psychotropic envy.


109 posted on 06/24/2005 1:31:06 PM PDT by Rightfootforward
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To: dfwgator
The head honchos of the Church don't believe that crap, a simple car accident would do the trick.

You can't throw a rock at a sci-fi convention without hitting a scientologist who will want to talk to you about hovercars.

110 posted on 06/24/2005 1:35:53 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: DTogo
Yeah, in this instance I support Tom Cruise. It kinda amazes me to see some Freepers constantly make fun of Cruise. He doesn't drink. He's against drugging to remedy psychological 'issues' (Ritalin, etc). He didn't get violent (or even profane!) when the water got squirted in his face.

I'd put Cruise's Drug rehabilitation "philanthropy" at about the same level as Tony Robbins filming himself handing out blankets to the needy in his infomercials. The goal is recruitment, not charity. As for enslaving people, destroying families, and personal bankrupcy, scientology is worse than any drug or alcohol addiction

111 posted on 06/24/2005 1:37:24 PM PDT by Antioch (St. Jerome: "Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.")
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To: Antioch
As for enslaving people, destroying families, and personal bankrupcy, scientology is worse than any drug or alcohol addiction

And it certainly won't help people in the afterlife.

112 posted on 06/24/2005 1:39:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Longhorns are Gator Bait!!!)
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To: Antoninus
Only a jerk-off who lost touch with reality could follow a cult formed by L(Loser) Ron Blubber.Does anyone know what Tom's real name is?
113 posted on 06/24/2005 1:39:35 PM PDT by rdcorso (To Fight And Win The War On Terror We Must Secure Our Borders Now.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
And Brooke Shields did no one a favor when she detailed how she wanted to kill her newborn child and throw herself out a window.

I could not possibly disagree with you more. There are women--thank God, very, very few women--who suffer from post-partum psychosis. Maybe just one unfortunate woman heard what Shields went through and, most importantly, heard that she got the help she needed, and recognized herself in Shields' story. Maybe that one unfortuante woman realized that she, too, needed help. Sounds like a big-ass favor to me.

114 posted on 06/24/2005 1:40:50 PM PDT by grellis (FEMININE-ist)
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To: TightyRighty
See the whole thing
115 posted on 06/24/2005 1:48:33 PM PDT by debg
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To: grellis

And meanwhile millions of other women heard her bizarre story and worried.

Did you watch the show or read her book? I suggest you check it out to learn exactly what you're praising.


116 posted on 06/24/2005 1:57:14 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Veto!

Agreed!


117 posted on 06/24/2005 2:01:04 PM PDT by justche (No one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start now and make a brand new ending)
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To: debg
So thats what a is a thetan looks like...

In the Scientology, man is held to consist of three parts—thetan, mind and body. The thetan is the spiritual being. One is a thetan who has a mind and who occupies a body. As is explained more fully below, the thetan is that which animates the body and uses the mind.

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118 posted on 06/24/2005 2:19:07 PM PDT by Antioch (St. Jerome: "Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.")
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To: over3Owithabrain
"Plus to my knowledge, Cruise doesn't go around bashing Bush, the WOT, or the country that makes him rich.

FYI - Mr. Cruise is on record as saying the reason his children (w/Nicole Kidman) are living with her in Australia is because he believes the United States is NOT a good place to raise children. (But he sure loves the money it gives him.) This also makes it very easy for him to be an absent father. More like a visiting uncle, which paves the way for him to meet the "extraordinary" (his words) newest "love" and (already) future wife after, what, 8 weeks of "dating"? Sounds pretty flaky to me. Even Nicole doesn't believe it.

119 posted on 06/24/2005 2:33:18 PM PDT by Max7
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To: Antioch

Thetans, cretins...this boy's on drugs!


120 posted on 06/24/2005 2:58:27 PM PDT by debg
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