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Tom Cruise Sucks

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More reasons why Tom Cruise is crazier than a sack of weazels

Jan. 19, 2008 So Tom is now in Germany, filming some dispensable film about Stauffenberg, the dude that tried to off Hitler in 1944 (unsuccessfully, obviously). Now, is it just me or dontcha find it somewhat ironic that Tom of all people, who (see below) rants about anybody who doesn’t share his beliefs, should be playing Stauffenberg? Wouldn’t he be more convincing as Hitler himself? I mean, a short, untalented man with a severe narcissistic personality disorder and anger management problems - the casting director for that film should be fired for missing the blatantly obvious.

Here’s a nice little vid - Heil Tom! -

Why I think Tom Cruise sucks

I used to like Tom Cruise. I first saw him in Risky Business and thought "wow, what a cool dude!" Cocktail made me want to learn how to flair (about 8 broken bottles later I gave up), Rain Man, The Firm, Jerry Maguire - all excellent films with an excellent actor. He also seemed like a nice guy - great smile and all.

When the whole TomKat affair started, I thought ‘good for him’ - I think Katie Holmes is a fairly decent actress (as much as one could prove on Dawson’s Creek, I guess, never seen her in anything else) and pretty, seems like a nice girl.

Then it started getting a bit ridiculous. Instead of promoting his new film War of the Worlds, all we heard about is how much in love he and Katie are. Seemed a bit too much and had people wondering.

As if he hadn’t had enough strange publicity already, he had to go ahead and criticize Brooke Shields for using an anti-depressant to overcome postpartum depression (PPD). In her new book Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, Shields admits to suffering terribly after her child was born, to the point of wanting to commit suicide, and describes recovering by seeking professional help. I can only imagine how awful it must be to suffer from PPD - here you are, new mother, expected to be happy about the birth of your baby and all you feel is terribly, terribly sad. Kudos to Brooke Shields for using her fame to show ‘regular’ women suffering from PPD that they’re not alone and that there is help and hope. So who the hell is Tom Cruise, who, for reasons we do not know, doesn’t even have biological children of his own? And hello, does he have a uterus? Oh no wait, I forgot, he is an expert in psychiatry and the rest of us don’t understand.

Which brings me to my next rant. His interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show. During which Katie Holmes is present, as she seems at all his public ventures these days - hey Tom, are you worried people might not buy your hetero-spiel? I guess you could already figure Tom’s got shit for brains (’I'm just living my life, Matt. It’s something that — I mean, I’m living my life." - whoa, that’s deep!) by just reading the 3-page transcript. But watch the video and you will see - Tom is clearly losing it. Matt Lauer is a fine interviewer and doesn’t disappoint us here, either - he stays cool. But watch Tom toward the end, leaning forward, pointing at Lauer, his face a menacing grimace. Scary!

So Lauer mentions Cruise’s criticism of Brooke Shields. Cruise switches from ‘giddy in love with Katie’ to ‘nasty sniveling bitch’. Here are some choice words that fell during this conversation:

Cruise: [..] I know that psychiatry is a pseudo science.

Lauer: But Tom, if she [Brooke Shields] said that this particular thing helped her feel better, whether it was the antidepressants or going to a counselor or psychiatrist, isn’t that enough?

Cruise: Matt, you have to understand this. Here we are today, where I talk out against drugs and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people, okay, against their will, of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs. Do you know what Aderol is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?

(No. Matt Lauer has only been in journalism since 1979 and yet he has managed to stay completely unaware of current events and topics, that’ll be it, Tom. You stupid arrogant shmuck. And yes, people are subjected to electric shock treatment against their will all the time, as we hear every day in the news. Not.)

Cruise: No, you see. Here’s the problem. You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.

(Interesting! I was not aware that Tom ever went to college. And since when can reading some freaky sci-fi sect’s pamphlet be considered as studying?)

Lauer: Aren’t there examples, and might not Brooke Shields be an example, of someone who benefited from one of those drugs?

Cruise: All it does is mask the problem, Matt. And if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem. That’s what it does. That’s all it does. You’re not getting to the reason why. There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.

(Dr. Margaret Spinelli of the New York Psychiatric Institute’s maternal mental health program said, "science at every level" has demonstrated that postpartum depression stems from a chemical imbalance that medication can correct in 80% of the cases. - New York Daily News, June 24, 2005. - Sorry, Dr. Spinelli, you don’t understand. Tom does.)

[..]

Cruise: But what happens, the antidepressant, all it does is mask the problem. There’s ways, [with] 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. [..] (Brooke Shields was on Paxil. Paxil is a SSRI - a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Which is NOT an anti-psychotic drug, nor is it mind altering, dumbass.) And she doesn’t understand the history of psychiatry. She doesn’t understand in the same way that you don’t understand it, Matt.

(Yeah, nobody understands but you, Tom. You midget egomaniac.)

(Brooke: Dr. Tom, I’m standing here at the ledge of my roof and wanting to jump, what shall I do?

Dr. Tom: Not to worry, Brooke, just swallow a Vitamin C and go for a jog around the block, you’ll be just fine.)

Lauer: But a little bit of what you’re saying Tom is, you say you want people to do well. But you want them do to well by taking the road that you approve of, as opposed to a road that may work for them.

Cruise: No, no, I’m not.

(Yes, yes, you are.)

Lauer: Well, if antidepressants work for Brooke Shields, why isn’t that okay?

Cruise: I disagree with it. And I think that there’s a higher and better quality of life. And I think that, promoting — for me personally, see, you’re saying what, I can’t discuss what I wanna discuss?

(Say what??)

[..]

Lauer: I’m just saying. But aren’t there examples where it works?

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. [..]

(Uh, what papers, Tom? The Sunday Funnies don’t count.)

Cruise: Matt, but here’s the point. What is the ideal scene for life? Okay. The ideal scene is someone not having to take antipsychotic drugs.

("Ideal scene"? Ah, excuse me, sprechen Sie Scientology?)

But hey, that’s only the edited version we got to see.

If you’re still not convinced that Tom Cruise is an utter fruitcake, check out his behavior when someone from an English prank show pretended to interview him and then squirted him with water. Of course, it was a huge deal. I think even before he was squirted, he seemed very tense. And what’s up with all the sniffling and the clenched teeth, is he on coke? That might explain a few things…

Wait, did I say coke? Nope, he must be smoking something really good, or does anybody laugh like this during a really not that funny interview? And yes, of course Katie is present during this interview, too. And did you know that "communication is the universal solvent"? Damn, boy, just say NO to drugs!

How about the jump-fest on Oprah’s couch? Looks like he could use some Ritalin himself.

Oh, but that’s not all. Amazingly, he went to Germany to promote War Of The Worlds - even though Germany was evil enough to ban scientology. In an an interview with Der Spiegel, he was full of wit and wisdom.

Cruise: I’m a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It’s called Narconon.

SPIEGEL: That’s not correct. Yours is never mentioned among the recognized detox programs. Independent experts warn against it because it is rooted in pseudo science.

Cruise: You don’t understand what I am saying. It’s a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period.

(Again, for those who haven’t got it yet: You don’t understand. Only Tom does.)

And here’s a nice bit from an interview with Entertainment weekly:

ET: Yeah, but Scientology textbooks sometimes refer to psychiatry as a ”Nazi science”…

Cruise: Well, look at the history. Jung was an editor for the Nazi papers during World War II. [According to Aryeh Maidenbaum, the director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, this is not true.] Look at the experimentation the Nazis did with electric shock and drugging. Look at the drug methadone. That was originally called Adolophine. It was named after Adolf Hitler… [According to the Dictionary of Drugs and Medications, among other sources, this is an urban legend.]

(Yeah, let’s pull the Nazi-number whenever we want to make something look evil, shall we? "In fact, the name, Dolophine, was originated at Eli Lilly & Co. in the U.S. long after the war, and was probably derived from the French dolor (pain) and fin (end).")

Needless to say, Tom believes in aliens, too, as he recently told a Bild Zeitung reporter.

Here’s another gem - Cruise: You’re stepping over a line, you know you are. I’m just telling you right now — put your manners back in. (Interview with Peter Overton, 60 Minutes). Ooh, someone seems a bit tense here!

So, Tom Cruise is a great actor but a complete nutter. Does it make sense to boycott his movies? Yes. I don’t care if my carpenter-neighbor thinks that alien’s pick him up every night for their space-ship poker round. I do care if a high-profile actor. someone who, despite his recent antics, still has many fans around the world and therefore a lot of influence, is spouting bullshit. This is dangerous bullshit. Have you ever met and talked to the parent of a child with ADHD? Have you heard them tell you how they were close to jumping off the balcony because they were just so exhausted? Have you ever met a young college student who has only managed to keep up his performance in school with the help of Ritalin? So here this idiot Cruise, having no experience, telling people it’s wrong. Now you and I don’t give a shit what some actor says. But there will be people who admire him and who’ll say ‘well, Tom thinks it’s wrong, then maybe we shouldn’t be giving our child Ritalin." Or ‘I feel suicidal, but Tom is such a great guy and if he thinks I shouldn’t seek help for my depression, I guess he must be right. Let me swallow my vitamins and go for a swim before I slit my wrists." Even worse, there might be people, perhaps young, impressionable people, who are currently on meds and who are now feeling like something is wrong with them because Dr. Tom says so.

Like it or not, Tom Cruise is an idol for many people. But he is an idol that has gone off his rocker and is spouting dangerous, stupid, scientifically invalid crap. Send him a message - boycott him. Do not go to see his movies, do not rent DVDs or videos of movies starring him. Do not watch TV shows including him. Do not buy any books about him (are there any?). Let him know that with fame, there comes responsibility.

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Tom Cruise Is An Ass
by Rob Zazueta

Perhaps I should stop watching the Today Show in the mornings as, lately, it’s really been agitating me too early. To wit: On Friday, Matt Lauer interviewed Tom Cruise about his new movie "War of the Worlds". In the interview, Matt asked Tom about his recent comments regarding Brooke Shields and her new book regarding her battle with post-partem depression. Essentially, Tom Cruise railed against her use and advocacy of anti-depressants to pull her out of her hormone-induced depression, despite the fact that they clearly worked for her and, more than likely, saved her and her child’s lives.

I’ll let you watch the Today Show interview yourself. Now, here’s the thing - to some degree, I agree with Cruise. I strongly feel that medical science these days has devolved to "Have a pill". This is not to say medicine doesn’t have it uses or purposes, but I feel like doctors, pushed by money-conscious HMOs and marketing-savvy pharmaceutical companies to keep costs low and improve the bottom line, are often missing the problems their patients come to them with by throwing drugs at them rather than really investigating the source of the issue. When it comes to things like, say, Ritalin, there’s a lot of pressure on doctors from exhausted parents who would rather have the magic pill that calms their kids down rather than explore the safer, smarter and more effort-intensive process of teaching their children how to focus. I believe that using Ritalin therapeutically - that is, just enough to get the child to focus, but not so much as to "fix" the problem so that correcting the behaviour is made easier - is the best method. The same is true for anti-depressants. It’s been shown that regular exercise can help fight depression. But, if a person is too depressed to get up and exercise, a small dose of anti-depressant may help get the ball rolling.

But it’s not Cruise’s opinions that bothered me. Everyone has their right to take side in a debate, and I respect the opinions of others. Cruise, however, does not, and he was a real ass about it. Here’s a choice piece of the exchange:

Lauer: …A little bit of what you’re saying Tom is, you say you want people to do well. But you want them do to well by taking the road that you approve of, as opposed to a road that may work for them.

Cruise: No, no, I’m not.

Lauer: Well, if antidepressants work for Brooke Shields, why isn’t that okay?

Cruise: I disagree with it. And I think that there’s a higher and better quality of life. And I think that, promoting — for me personally, see, you’re saying what, I can’t discuss what I wanna discuss?

Did you see what he did there? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he misspoke when he said "I disagree with it" as an answer to why it’s not OK to take antidepressants. What gets me is how he took the argument and used it to martyr himself, even though his opinions are not being squelched. Lauer asked him, in essence, to defend his position. He defended it by asking "I can’t discuss what I wanna discuss?"

At this point in a debate, I’d expect a rational, intelligent human being to begin naming sources. "If you had read the American Journal of Scientological Medicine’s third quarterly issue in 2004, you’d have read the article by Dr. Noaydea that clearly shows how the use of psychotropic drugs reduces the mind’s ability to work on its own." If Cruise had pulled that out of his self-righteous ass, I’d have been impressed. Even if I totally questioned the source I’d at least feel that, yes, he cared enough about this issue to do some research, no matter how circumspect.

But Cruise is not a doctor, and I seriously doubt he’s actually read anything more scholarly on the subject than People Magazine. Given the style of his rhetoric and his seeming unwillingness to even name a source, to provide useful, factual information to support his cause, I’m guessing he got his information out of the Scientology newsletter or some other publication that caters to his point of view and his point of view alone. He didn’t even have a cogent comeback for Lauer’s argument that he’s seen it work in people he knows and lives with. Practically everyone can tell a story of how Ritalin turned an otherwise out-of-control child into a passably good one. What’s Cruise’s response to that assertion?

"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?"

At no point in time does he actually, specifically point out his perceived flaw in the argument that "sometimes, Ritalin works." Instead he questions the theories used in coming up with dosages of Ritalin doled out to these patients. This has nothing to do with the argument. If he thinks Ritalin is bad, if he thinks it shouldn’t be used, if he thinks it’s destroying our children’s minds, then, please, offer some proof and some solution other than "I know more than you do, but I won’t tell you how."

I know this shouldn’t affect my impression of Tom Cruise the actor, except I don’t honestly believe I can ever look up to the screen at his two-story tall smug grinning mug without having the words "asshole" reverberate through my mind. You’re free to be passionate about your beliefs, you’re free to explore them at your will on national television and you’re free to disagree with anyone who doesn’t share them. But, if you’re going to come to an argument, either bring the tools or go home. I don’t expect perfect recitations direct from scholarly journals, nor do I expect you to be an expert on whatever it is you’re discussing. But, if you’re going to argue and shut down your opposition by saying they’re wrong, back it up with some facts, some quotes, some ideas that indicate this is not just all your personal crackpot theory bubbling in the back of your insane, self-absorbed little mind. You are not absolutely right. You are not an expert. You, Tom Cruise, are, instead, an arrogant ass who is no longer worthy of the $9.50 I pay to see your movies.

(Copied with the kind permission of Rob Zazueta; RobZazueta.com, June 27, 2005)

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Absolutely brilliant article - Who asked Tom Cruise for advice? - "So pretty much we can just write these schmucks off as nothing more than no-talent ass clowns. But apparently we still have to listen to them. Goddammit!"

Other Things that Tom Cruise Knows More About Than You

Tom Cruise going absolutely bonkers - be sure to check out Dane Cook’s impression of it as well

What’s it like to be trapped in an elevator with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? - "oh my God, it’s Tom Cruise! I don’t have any paper, but could you autograph my bottle of Zoloft?” - A Defamer.com reader reports

Tom Cruise is an asshole - list of blogs slamming Tom. My favorite: "He’s pissed me off even more than Ashlee Simpson, Jamie Lynn Spears, Jesse Whats-his-face-look-a-like-a-ten-year-old-even-when-he’s like-16-or-something-or-other-with-a-little-whiny-voice, Lindsay Lohan and fucking ABBA combined. That takes skill. Unluckily, thats the only skill that Tommy has." - Scribbler (The Mind Of)

Fun illustrated transcript of the MSNBC interview

Tom Cruise: ‘I’m not Gay!’ - By a man who knows a cheap fag when he sees one

Tom Cruise: psychiatrists are ruining our children - "I must have missed the part where Cruise scored a degree in psychiatry. Was that before or after Days of Thunder?"

Katie ‘Home’ Schooling in the Future - "To hear a major movie star, with no degree beyond high school, rant these words: "There’s no such thing as a chemical imbalance," and then proceed to denounce all of psychiatry, must have been delicious for Lauer."

Oregon Commentator Online - Tom Cruise: Yup, Idiot. "The thing is, Tom, that neither Adderall nor Ritalin is an anti-psychotic."

You were into Scientology for many years before you showed the world how crazy you were, so why not keep it hidden again? - An open letter to Tom

I say screw you - yeah, Tom, so do I

TomCruisIsNuts.com - "What really inspired us was Tom’s appearance on the ‘Today’ show. His body language, the way he got in Matt Lauer’s face - it was all pretty amazing. Watching one of America’s best actors coming unglued - like the rivets popping off the wing of an airliner - there’s a kind of fascination." (D.J. LaChapelle, co-creator of the site, in an interview with Hudson Morgan, New York Daily News)

Funny blog entry - "I swear, all that’s missing now is a monkey with a harmonica and this TomKat circus sideshow could get its own fuckin’ tent." (famed Trash)

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