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January 17, 2008
Rubbernecking
Yesterday's Gawker posting of a Tom Cruise Scientology "indoctrination video" spread like wildfire* through the internets. It is difficult to say what the enduring fascination is for this not-terribly-capable actor or his absurd ersatz religion.** Cruise' assertion that "when a scientologist drives by an accident, we have to stop, because we know we're the only ones who can help" is, as WWTDD put it, "just about the most horrible mental image I've ever had". Today, as the sun follows the rain***, the Church of Scientology has filed a lawsuit against Gawker for copyright infringement (hat tip to Agent Bedhead). Gawker be praised, they have refused Scientology's demand to pull the video.
* If you will forgive the cliché; it is early and my coffee is has yet to kick in.
** Counting down to the first person dragged before one of Canada's "human rights" commissions for making light of Scientology and its prophet L. Ron Hubbard (propeller beenie upon him).
*** Coffee still not kicking in.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 17, 2008 07:21 AM
