Scientology

Thanks to the people of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, for allowing YouTubists to disseminate clips of their shows. Olbermann understand the internets and has been good at getting smart viral marketing rockstars to spread his gospel --just like the people behind The Daily Show did with Jon Stewart.

Anyhoo, check out this interview with Dave Touretzky, a 'cultologist' and one of the lead critics of Scientology. Interesting quote : "Scientology has one set of rules for celebrities and another set of rules for everybody else".

The video is after the jump.

[via Is baby Suri Cruise living the Scientology life? - Gossip: The Scoop - MSNBC.com]:

"While on his worldwide promotion of Mission Impossible III, I am told, his behavior was, in a word, paranoid," says Ross. "He was obsessed about the purity of the air and at one point, he was convinced he was being followed and insisted on taking longer routes to places. He was also quite concerned about whether locks worked and had them checked. Scientologists are not only afraid of creating engrams, they're also afraid of the effects of those around them who they call Suppressive Persons or SPs. It's possible that Tom Cruise is being overcome by his Scientology training and that's leading to a paranoid world view that is being reflected in his behavior with baby Suri."

I really was not going to write an article about Tom Cruise's bizarro family life but I have to. This privacy and religion thing is cutting too close to the bone for me.

You see, I am living my little invasion of privacy hell because the father of my children has convinced them to try going to school this next September. The privacy that we were afforded with our homeschooling life is gone, dead, kaput and now I have to contend with prying noses of school teachers, principals and administrators in a way that is invasive and crosses the line of being not just rude but anti-constitutional.