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

[elperromagico]

Anybody wanna explain that one to me?

[redqueen]

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(

[Debbi801]

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.

[redqueen]

10. Heheh...

I'm not *that* curious. :P

Thanks, though!

[Shell Beau]

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!

[smirkymonkey]

27. Hey, maybe Tom Cruise should be president!

He's starting to sound just like Chimpy.

[Midlodemocrat]

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.

[Shell Beau]

16. But he said there is no such thing as chemical imbalance.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Oh, you're right. my bad.

That seals the deal for me. He is awful.

[Shell Beau]

25. Yeah! I wonder where he got his medical degree?

[mr blur]

39. "I think he's the greatest storyteller cinema has ever known."

Spielberg?!!!!

Cruise is DUMBER than a box of rocks.

[Darth_Kitten]

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. :)

[borlis]

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.

[Shell Beau]

4. WTF?

:wtf:

[Roland99]

3. Drudge has the full transcript up.

Yowzers!

[hippiechick]

6. Psychiatry is a pseudo-science ? WTF is Scientology, then ?

No, wait ... don't answer that ... :freak:

[smirkymonkey]

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.

[distantearlywarning]

37. Reminds me of

that fundie idiot in Kansas who called evolution a "fairy tale" a week or two back.

Pot, meet kettle.

[Rick Myers]

7. I can't believe Matt would take that crap and

NOT mention Scientology!!!

On edit: He did mention it briefly at the very end

[buff2]

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.

[Arugula Latte]

38. I am too.

Matt or Tom ... hmmm ... which one is more of an arrogant little prick?

[Rhiannon12866]

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:

[SoCalDem]

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)

[eleonora]

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.

[GirlinContempt]

13. Closer to

$750,000, probably up near $1m these days.

[Lavender Brown]

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!

[KurtNYC]

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.

[Hamlette]

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.

[underpants]

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.

[elperromagico]

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.

[underpants]

22. I just printed the transcript

going to read it on break

[undeterred]

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.

[Lisa0825]

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?

[ronnykmarshall]

24. Pompus asshole.

His fucking mug was on every magazine when I was the store.

Made me want to :puke: !!

[mwdem]

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.

[Catfight]

29. Tom's sperm is as useless as his brain. He's just flaky and weird. nt

[Debi]

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?

[eleonora]

31. Katie is a naive groupie turned actress

a good match.

[Debi]

34. and she has enough money to get 'clear' n/t

[newportdadde]

33. I think we need Tom to interview Republicans..

Hell he is grilling Mat lol

[eleonora]

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:

[KurtNYC]

36. those truths are Pay-per-View

Xenu needs the cash.

[DS1]

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:

[Kat45]

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.