Today on Today: Tom Cruise Takes On Matt Lauer’s Thetans : Gawker
Gawker transcribed the Tom Cruise interview with Matt Lauer today. I really don’t like Matt Lauer, but this interview made me like him just a little bit, and I hate Tom Cruise for making that happen. The only thing worse is if it would have been Katie Couric doing the interview, but more likely she would have giggled, dimpled and went “Oh, Tom.”
I even had to listen to this crap as part of my job. Really must get off the morning news shift before I turn this blog into a Celeblog.
What I’m waiting for is Brooke Shields’ slapdown.
Please, dear God, cure me of my interest in this Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes fake romance that just perplexes me so much that I’ve become a little obsessive. Thank you, Amen.
Part of the transcript from Gawker:
Tom: [with patented ferocity] Do you know what Adderall is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? [Ed: Oh, har har. We’re on Ritalin right now.]
Matt: I understand the abuse of all these things —
T: [interrupting] Yeah but you don’t understand the history of these drugs. And if you do, you know that it masks the problem. There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance!
M: But —
T: No, Matt, I know these things —
M: No —
T: Listen —
[This continues for a few moments and we stop listening.]
M: So, depression — is it all gobbledy gook?T: No, Matt, I’m not saying that. That’s an alteration of what I’m saying. These drugs are dangerous, mind-altering chemicals. There are ways of handling these problems so that we don’t end up in a Brave New World.
M: You want [other people] to do well, but you want them to do well on a road that you approve of.
T: No —
M: [interrupting] But if anti-depressants worked for Brooke Shields, isn’t that okay?
T: I disagree with it.
M: But aren’t there examples where it works?
T: You don’t even know what Ritalin is! If you read the papers on how they came up with the drug, the dosage… You should be more responsible in knowing what it is. I am responsible. I know these things.
He needs to fire his sister as his handler and get his old handler back who knew how to hide the “real Tom.”
