Tom Cruise, Scientologist: video PR disaster
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They did. Google’s YouTube took it down.
Tom Cruise in his most laughable comedy role ever —- as The Great Scientology Snake Oil Salesman.
“The video is currently on YouTube, but who knows how long it’ll stay there?” – p2pnet posted yesterday, going on:
“But it’s definitely worth saving for posterity so use your favourite capture app, or maybe KeepVid, before Cruise and other Scientology heavies lean on Google to make them take it down.”
Last night it was still available here, there and everywhere, despite the fact the original had been censored by Google’s YouTube.
Not today, though.
No worries, however. It’s still online everywhere. And the parodies are springing up like mushrooms.
Nice, work., Tom.
Way to go, Scientology leaders.
Here are just some of the headlines on Google at 4:49 am Pacific:
- Bid to block Cruise video backfires – The Press Association
- Tom Cruise vows to ‘clean this place up’ – Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
- Tom Cruise’s Scary Movie – Washington Post
- Cruise control – Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Scientology plays Whack-a-Tom – Los Angeles Times
It’s a PR disaster on a scale only equalled by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG as they try to sue men, women and children around the world into becoming obedient buyers of corporate music ‘product’.
Meanwhile, will Tom’s troubles never end? In what has to be one of the most farcical movie castings ever, he’s playing World War II German hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
However, a spokesman for the German Protestant church, Thomas Gandow, has named Cruise the Goebbels of Scientology, and, “This film will have the same propaganda advantages for Scientology as the 1936 Olympics had for the Nazis,” he says in an interview with MSNBC, and his son, Berthold, “told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper earlier this week that he objected to Cruise taking the role because of his involvement with Scientology,” says the BBC.
“He should keep his hands off my father,” it has von Stauffenberg stating.
We’ll try and find time to transcribe Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist, The Video, for you. It’s absolutely unbelievable.
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UPDATE >
Wait no longer. Thanks to Monsieur LeBoef (see comment post below), click here for the unexpurgated text of Tom spouting. Full Monty. It’s wild, it’s wooly, it’s ———
Stay tuned.
Also See:-
p2pnet – Tom Cruise, Scientologists, attack blog, January 17, 2008
BBC – Germany imposes ban on Tom Cruise, June 26, 2008
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January 18th, 2008 at 7:56 am
The people that bring SLAPP suits are finding out that on the net, the populace loves to find these sorts of tidbits. Faster than a blazing fart, it spreads all over until there is no hope of ever containing it.
If they had been smart, they would ignored it and in a week or so, it would all have blown over. But the Scientology mentality is to cause enough problems by legal means to get them to shut up. That doesn’t work well on the net, as they are finding out. Instead of gone in a week, this action has changed to be around forever. You can be sure this is already spreading to P2P apps and will be in peoples back up files until the dvd blanks crater from oxidation.
Slick move there… Guess there is no bad PR if you want it this bad.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Maybe this video is no longer there, but there are many other on GooTube.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Gawker has ‘em all…the vid most widely circulated is but one of six that was shown at the same Scn, Inc. event. Today media is responding to another in that series where Tom claims the EPA was lying, and that Scientologists don’t need permission because they are the authorities.
It may seem like Scientology is a harmless nut cult, until you understand their written policies to infiltrate governments, their corporate shell game of nonprofit “educational” fronts, and who was invited to and attended Cruise’s latest movie premiere – such as John Danielson, partner with former Bush Department of Education Secretary and Rod Paige of Chartwell Education.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Here’s a transcript:
Mister Big Voice: Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist.
Tom Cruise: I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn, and… because a Scientologist does. He… or she… has the ability to… create new and better realities and improve conditions. Uh… being a Scientologist you look at someone and you know absolutely that you can help them.
So for me, it really is KSW. And it’s just like… it’s… it’s something that, uh… I don’t mince words with that. You know? With… with anything that LRH does. But that policy to me has really gone… ffptt! Boy. And I re, and I… there’s a time I went through and I said, you know what? When I read it I, you know, I just went pfoo! This is it! This is exactly it.
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one that can really help.
But that’s… that’s what drives me, is that I know we have an opportunity… and, uh… to really… to help. For the first time. Ef-effectively change people’s lives, and, uh… I am dedicated to that. I’m gonna… I’m… absolutely… uncompromisingly (snicker) dedicated to that.
Orgs are there to help, okay? But we as, you know, also the public, it’s like… we have a responsibility. It’s not just the Orgs. It’s not just David Miscavidge. You know? It’s not just… not just me! It’s you. It’s everyone out there kind of s… re-reading KSW and looking at what needs to be done and saying, “Okay! Am I gonna do it, or am I not gonna do it?” Period! And am I gonna look at that guy? Or am I too afraid? Because I have my own Out Ethics to put in someone else’s Ethics. And that’s all it comes down to.
And I won’t hesitate to put ethics in on someone else. You know? Because I put it ruthlessly in on myself. And I think that, uh… I respect that. In… in others. And, uh… you know. I’m there to help. And we’re here to help. And my opinion is, is that, look, you’re either on board, or you’re not on board, okay? But just… if you’re on board, you’re on board, just like the rest of us. Period.
We are the authorities on getting people off drugs. We are the authorities on the mind. We are the authorities on improving conditions. Criminon. We can rehabilitate criminals. Way to Happiness… we can bring peace uh… and unite cultures. Uh… that, once you know these tools and you know that they work, it’s… it’s not good enough that… that I’m just doing okay.
Traveling the world and meeting the people that I… that I’ve met, you know… talking with these leaders in various fields… they want help. And they are depending on people who know, and who can be effective, and do it. And that’s us. That is our responsibility, to do that.
It is the time now. Now is the time, okay? It is being a Scientologist, people are turning to you. So you better know it. You better know it. And if you don’t… you know… go… and learn it! You know? But don’t pretend you know it and, or, for, you know, whatever. It’s like, we’re here to help.
I mean, if you’re a Scientologist, you see life for… you see things… the way they are. In all its glory, you know? All of its complexity. Uh… and the more you know as a Scientologist, you, you don’t become overwhelmed by it.
(snickering) And uh… I went, you know, she, they said, “So, like, have you met an SP?” (disturbing outburst of cackling that makes understanding the next few lines difficult) And I looked at them and, you know, and I thought, what a beautiful thing, because maybe, one day, it’ll be like that! You know what I’m saying? Maybe one day it will be that… Wow… SP’s… like, they’ll just read about those in the history books, you know? (more sinister cackles)
Thing is, I just go through that tech, and it’s, it literally it, it’s not… how to run from an SP. It’s PTSSP, how to shatter suppression… confront, shatter suppression. You apply it, it’s like boom.
Because they don’t come up to me… and do that. Uh… they don’t do it to me. Not to my face. You know? Or anywhere in my vicinity where they feel they can be… confronting, you know? They just don’t do it.
I wish the world was a different place. I’d like to go on vacation and go and romp and play and just do that. You know what I mean? I mean… that’s what I want it to be, okay? That’s how… I would, you know, and there’s times I’d like to do that. But… but I can’t, because… I know. I know. So… I… I, you know… but, you know. You just, you… I… I have to do something about it. It’s not… You know, you can sit here and wish it was different and then you look at it and you go, “Okay, this is it, alright, okay.” And there’s that moment when you go “You know? I have to do something, don’t I? Yeah. I really have to do it because I can’t live with myself if I don’t.” And it’s… and that really is it.
I don’t care if someone thinks it’s hard or easy. It’s either… you’re either helping, and contributing everything you can, or you’re not. Okay? Uh… because I’m carrying my load. Alright? And not only that, as much as I’m carrying, I still feel like I gotta do more. Alright? There’s still a thing of… let’s go!
You can just see it, the look in their eyes, you know the ones that are doing it. You know? And you know the spectators who are the ones that are going, well, it’s easy for you or what am I doing, and it’s just… that thing is, uh… I’ve cancelled that in my… area. (cackling) Around my… it’s like, man, you’re either in or you’re out. That’s spectatorism, and it’s something that… that is… we have no time for now.
So it’s our responsibility to… educate. Create the new reality. You know, we have that responsibility to say, hey, this is the way it should be done. Because we do it this way, and people are actually getting better. And let’s get it done. You know? Let’s really get it done, and have enough love, compassion toughness that… that you’re gonna do it. Uh, and, uh… do it… right.
And I have to tell you something. I really… It… it is… you know…. It’s rough and tumble. And it’s wild and wooly. And it’s a blast. It’s a blast. It really is fun. Because damnit, there’s nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight, and suddenly, you see – pfft! – things are better!
I want to know that I’ve done everything I could. Uh… every day. And I think about those people out there who are depending on us, and uh… I think about that. And it does make me feel like… man… God, there’s… you know? We got more work. I need more help. You know? Get those spectators either in the playing field or out of the arena, you know? That’s how I… really, that’s how I feel about it.
I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything. (maniacal laughter) There’s nothing part of the way for me. (kookier laughter still) It’s just PFOOO!
Mister Big Voice: A Scientologist can be defined by a single question. Would you want others to achieve the knowledge you know have? In answering that question, Tom Cruise has introduced LRH technology to over one BILLION people of Earth! And that’s only the first wave he’s unleashed! Which is why the story of Tom Cruise: Scientologist, has only just begun!
January 19th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I just checked and the video is all over mininova and the pirate bay. Given that they can’t keep telesync and screener copies of the latest hot movies off of bittorrent they don’t have a chance at stopping the Tom Cruise $cientology videos.