A doctor, Playboy and Nazis. With just three clues we want you, our intrepid readers, to guess what this story could possibly be about. Though that does mean ignoring the picture next to this text. And the headline. Hmm…
That’s right, it’s Tom Cruise News! Was there ever any doubt?
Yes, it would seem we live in a world where it makes more than enough sense for a comment in Playboy magazine by a TV doctor to result in said doctor being likened to a Nazi, on behalf of the Cruiser’s legal representation. We at hecklerspray are confused and annoyed by this world, but we soldier on.
It all started a few days ago when it was revealed that television doctor Drew Pinsky had spoken of Cruise’s affiliation with Scientology, remarking to Playboy magazine (possibly when surrounded by naked breasts):
“A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt.”
Now, likening followers of Scientology to strange behaviour may seem like a perfectly sensible and reasonable summation, and even going so far as to bring a mental illness into things is sure to strike anyone as making perfect sense, especially when referring to how they think the thing they’re following is a bona-fide religion.
But not Tom Cruise, oh no – he seemed to take issue with this statement. Well, through his lawyer, Bert Fields, at least. Obviously unhappy with what he saw as a ridiculous overstatement that no one in their right mind could possibly come to, Fields issued this response:
“The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels.”
We do feel the need to point out that Joseph Goebbels – though he may have done some evil things in his time on the planet – certainly did not liken following Scientology to mental illness. Most likely because Goebbels died seven years before the religion was invented, but there may be other mitigating circumstances too.
Now if hecklerspray were likened to a famous Nazi bastard, we would respond with fierce words and likely brutal force – we don’t stand for no jibba jabba round these parts. But it would seem the good (or evil, if you believe Cruise and co.) doctor is cut from a different cloth altogether, as he soon issued an apologetic statement, which read:
“Although Mr. Fields’s intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise, whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand.”
What exactly he was trying to do, by comparing followers of Scientology (namely Tom Cruise) to persons of ill mental health, we may never know. But apparently Dr Drew wasn’t trying to insinuate that followers of Scientology (namely Tom Cruise) were likely sufferers of mental illness. Obviously.
What Dr Drew should have done was liken Tom Cruise, the stoic follower of Scientology, to a Nazi. It would have made far more sense. Or Jesus.
David Bryden says
My definition of religion is “unquestioning belief in a specific doctrine”. Scientology is as much a religion as any other.
Charlene Franscioso says
Very good article, but your title says “mentalist” in the title, which is a mind reader or telepathic.
Coincidentally, Scientologists at Tom Cruises OT level, believe they have special powers. Of course they don’t, but they are all especially brainwashed into believing that others do, and just too afraid to say, “Uh, I don’t got the power.”
Many people were forced or threatened to join the Nazi party, after Hitler took power in 1933 German.
Scientologists, on the other hand, become Scilons of their own free will. Of course, there is a huge double standard for celebrities, where they get the spa treatment along with the brain wash treatment. Read all about it by searching CLAMBAKE (Scientologists are called clams because L. Ron Hubbard thought many humans evolved from them.)
Nazis didn’t even have much to say about the mentally ill, in the way of propaganda or in public. Instead, they tried a program of euthanasia fairly early on, to free up mental hospitals. Pretty gruesome but they kept it very quiet, so yeah, Goebbels and Nazis is ridiculous to bring up.
Besides, Tom Cruise is a batshit crazy Scilon and everyone knows it. Maybe he’ll recover his sanity if some cult buster can give him therapy and get him out the cult.
roger gonnet says
Bryden above says that “beliefs in doctrines” are all religions. That’s a wrong definition, otherwise, EXXON, TOTAL, GM, political parties etc would all be “religious”. His argument has been created by scientology and people paid by this cult.
Now, Cruise is indeed a polyschizophrenic person, like I was some decades ago, since he believes that he is far from being the only person living in his body. Cruise believes thousands of other human spirits lives in his body (called Body Thetans in scientology). He believes that he can speak telepathically to those beings, and get them out.
He believes that his wife Katie, his Suri daughter, his adopted kids, and almost all the planet except the few people having gone to scientology secret levels, are inhabited by thousands of those space alien cooties.
So, who’s nuts, him, or them?
pts says
Ha ha David you’re funny without knowing it. By your definition nazism could be considered a religion. You Scientologists crack me up!
euclid says
My definition of religion is:
“You’re bad, you’re bad, you’re bad, gives us some money,
oh, you’re alright then comeback next week.”
gir says
scientology is gay
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Tom Cruise is wrong
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I love scientology so much
David Bryden says
>> "That’s a wrong definition, otherwise, EXXON, TOTAL, GM, political parties >> etc would all be “religious”.Really? So, what is the doctrine of General Motors for example? Are GM employees required to believe in some set of principles, besides the obvious "make more money"? Principles that cannot be altered?Or take political parties; which of them isn’t willing to update their manifesto as times change? Do any of them have a fixed, sacrosanct doctrine that they simply can’t mess with? Yes, I know the Marxists have; and so I consider Marxism a religion. Nazism too.If you have a better definition of "religion", I’d like to hear it.
Ramiro M says
I think Cruise is a terrific actor. It’s just too bad he turned into such a nutball….