Tom Cruise spars with Matt Lauer on 'Today'

[NormB]

Anybody who hates Matt Lauer can't be all bad.

[SW6906]

"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."

The exact post I was going to put up - you beat me to it.

[dfwgator]

It's the messenger, not the message.

[Stashiu]

A scientologist calling psychiatry a pseudo-science?

Now that is a good one.

[F16Fighter]

He [Cruise] also told Lauer, “You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.”

So Cruise announced to the entire world he plays mind games to seduce the vulnerable into the Cult of Scientology.

I wonder if the CoS has recently launched a recruitment drive...What's Travolta been up to lately?

[dfwgator]

Tom's "cure" is even worse than the disease.

[Sam the Sham]

Lauer thinks he is an intellectual but he is a narcissistic little girlie man.

And Tiny Tom isn't ?

[TightyRighty]

That video is so funny! I saw the show yesterday after everyone was talking about it and let me tell you - they guy is OFF HIS ROCKER! Nevermind the jumping on the chair - he kept giggling like a 13 year old girl and then he would bend down on one knee and bang the floor with his fist. Wierd!!

[martin_fierro]

lol

True dat.

[tobyhill]

Katie talks about a-holes and Lauer gets to talk to an a-hole. WOW, no wonder their ratings stinks. NBC/MSNBC's new motto,"we're not real reporters but we play one on TV".

[Dr. Eckleburg]

While scientology is a complete and sinister scam, 90% of what Cruise says about the dangers of psychotropic drugs and the sedating of American children is correct.

The trillion-dollar drug industry is not going to tolerate his outbursts much longer.

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. Women should not be told this is a real and possible outcome of childbirth which is exactly what she and Oprah would have women believe.

Shields needs a stronger faith in God and intensive psychotherapy, not drugs to mask her problem.

No doubt her perverted upbringing contains the seeds of her despair.

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL!!!!!

Did you make that graphic? That's great!!

[Howlin]

LOL!

[DManA]

Tom believes in solving problems the old fasioned way - holding onto used orange juice cans and chanting to the space men.

[DManA]

Tom believes in solving problems the old fasioned way - holding onto used orange juice cans and chanting to the space men.

[Veto!]

Cruise says a lot of the right things. Perhaps for wrong reasons, nevertheless, he's right about drugs and about most therapy. And he's right about Lauer being glib and not doing homework, just communicating (parroting) information without having real knowledge about what he's saying.

So I score this one for Cruise. At least he's admirable for standing up for what he believes in and not allowing the media idiots to push him around. More people should push back when Lauer and Walters and Couric and their ilk get snippy with them.

[Physicist]

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.

One can believe that strongly, and also acknowledge that certain psychotropic drugs have turned certain insane or emotionally incapacitated individuals into functioning members of society.

[Howlin]

Exactly.

Spielburg already said something about all this negative attention to Cruise last week; I guess Tom didn't get the memo.

[martin_fierro]

Funny, I don't recall him a-giggin' wit' the band.

(that drawing has Jack Kirby written all OVER it)

[NCC-1701]

Why waste good dilitium crystals on going after this loon? Let him wallow in his intellectual void.