Scientology Spokesman Tommy Davis: The Movieline Intervention
If all of that mess -- three years' worth, Tommy -- wasn't reason enough to keep you away from cameras, journalists, microphones, and anything/anyone else that would put your perspective on the record, then hopefully your overreaction to Martin Bashir's inquiry last week on Nightline will have finally done the trick:
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. This is wrong in so many ways. First of all, when Martin Bashir comes to your door, don't answer the door. Close the curtains and hide. But if you happen to give yourself away, play it cool. And God forbid someone asks you about Xenu, the transcript should look something like this Movieline Perfect-World Reenactment™:
Nightline: Do you believe that ... a galactic emperor called Xenu ... brought his people to earth 75 million years ago and buried them in volcanoes?
Davis: OK.
Nightline: Do you believe that?
Davis: Martin, there are certain tenets of Scientology that are unique to the religion, and they've been perverted and permuted and blown out of all proportion on the Internet and elsewhere throughout culture. It's frustrating that we can't be more enlightening about specific beliefs, because I know people are curious. But like any faith, parts of mine are private. Another Scientologist may tell you something else. [Again, Tommy, you're lying here, but you're doing great! Sell it!] I appreciate you wanting to set the record straight, but something this sensitive and this individual has to remain between a man and his faith.
Nightline: Well, I ... I have the burden of my own journalistic responsibility ...
Davis: Uh-huh.
Nightline: ... that I bring to this meeting and I hope that, I've been appropriately respectful of you in my asking of the questions ...
Davis: Well, it is in violation of my religious beliefs to talk about some of them. Please understand.
Nightline: So, just for clarification ... just for clarification, do you personally believe ...
Davis: Martin, look: Scientology is a religion of peace, and Scientologists are a peaceful people, but I must ask that we discontinue this line of questioning.
You know, that kind of thing. But really, I'd rather see you just get out of the game. With all those A-listers hanging around, don't you have any PR help you can call on to be the public face of the Church of Scientology? Does Kirstie Alley maybe want to take over for a while? This isn't working out for you, the Church, or your members, and while we on the outside love a public meltdown every now and then, it's not half the fun when the victim clearly doesn't know any better. So save yourself -- step aside. It's easier than it looks, or at least easier than getting clubbed in the press for four days running. Oh, and you're welcome.
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Hey, you missed one of Tommy Davis's greatest hits!
Here is Tommy Davis playing the role of asshole stalker.
Check it out (6:20-8:10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5PB_dEIwLM
Oh another piece from the clip
:30-1:20 Tommy shows up late and says "hi!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5PB_dEIwLM
One of the creeds of scientology IS "always attack, never defend" to be fair. Tommy IS doing his job. Which IS what makes it so damn funny. lol
You know why Scientology doesn't use Kirstie? The cult KNOWS she gets too much attention for being a ditz, and in addition, they wouldn't be able to control her. She would get ticked off if they tried to give her direction in what to say and what not to say. The cult would sink faster than the Titanic if Kirstie were to replace Tommy. So, yes, bring Kirstie on! She'd be my top choice.
Tommy is nice looking. He dresses well. If you don't pay any attention to what he's saying, or no one cares because they don't know who he is anyway, then it doesn't hurt cult operations as much. I agree though, that it shows the cult's paucity of good sense, that they can't find SOMEONE better than him. However, celebrities like Kirstie, are already rallying around Tommy and the cult -- in her twitters -- and against Haggis. Which is what brainwashed dupes of this cult do. They demonize anyone who leaves and speaks out about abuses.
The reason the internet is destroying Scientology, is that their scam's secrets, including high level "sacred" Xenu comic books scriptures, abuses and duplicity are being let out of the bag. They thrived on secrecy. Scientology was NEVER going to be major religion. It was designed to suck just enough vulnerable and uneducated people in, to make L. Ron Hubbard rich and it did. They targeted celebrities (PROJECT CELEBRITY) and give celebrities very special treatment so they have some fun, and they use them for free advertising, that Scientology "is a blast." And Xenu too!
From its inception, every aspect of Scientology was designed to suck money, in the most efficient manner.
As far as perpetuating itself, they are sunk. They promote their education method, STUDY TECH, yet their tiny power-craven leader David "Slappy" Miscavige is not only violent, he didn't use STUDY TECH to make it through high school, and they regularly encourage young people to join the cult and put off education. They did this with Astra Woodcraft, a brilliant young woman, daughter of an architect who worked for the cult, and eventually had to help his daughters escape.
Kirstie, John Travolta and Tom Cruise's experience with Scientology is not all that matters, it is just all that matters to them. There are literally thousands of former members who were outraged at being drawn into this scam, and the internet gives them a voice, whereas before the cult would bury criticism in an avalanche of law suits, blackmail or harassment, just as they did with Paulette Cooper.
David Miscavige should speak. He's better at not answering questions, and "misdirecting" than Tommy. But he won't, because his tiny stature gets noticed, and worse, he is violent. He is guilty of beating many people, and he is simply too much of a coward, and has to stay in hiding.
Oh, David Miscavige will squeak, err, speak. When Claire Headley's case gets to trial, little Slappy Miscavige will have his day to be heard.
Of course the cult doesn't want Kirstie Alley as a representative! She's up there in the hierarchy, having shoveled enough money at them to become an Operating Thetan, one of the Masters of Mass, Energy, Space and Time.
But she's also a whiny, self-absorbed twit, whose Twitters sometimes go on for days about the eeevils of psychiatry, or her new weight loss program.
In a way, she'd be the perfect OT for the job. Her mass ranges up around 300 lbs, she has the energy to Twitter all day long, she takes up a lot of space, and she sure squanders a lot of time.
But that's not the image Scientology wishes to portray. Old, silver-haired Heber Jentzsche was, physically, a good image. He looks like a kindly silverhaired pastor until he opens his mouth. "You love drugs! You're on drugs right now!" he yawped at an astonished newscaster during a live interview. Well, old Heber's being held in The Hole at the Scientology secret base in Riverside these days. They should dust him off and trot him out. They should probably duct tape his mouth shut first, though.
Hilarious piece. I loved it.
Tommy! Blow the cult! Save yourself!
But Scientology also does many beneficial things. No, That's not me the next poster-boy for that bunch. I quit the group practically three decades ago. What Scientology does do is help improve awareness, particularly spiritual awareness. For me, that benefit helped me in class, immensely. For an artist friend, it helped him make paintings in hours for what might have taken weeks. Before Scientology, conceptually I had always thought of myself being a spiritual being in a temporary body. With Scientology counseling, that reality became vividly clear. Exterior with full perception. Performing miracles in the magnitude of those performed by Moses. And most interestingly, I found I understood Christianity far additional entirely than I ever had.
Wow, Lady Gaga got eight VMA awards Sunday night! I am really proud of her achievements and I enjoyed that Born This Way tune GaGa sung too!
Make damn sure the finance has been cleared. I cannot see any reason why the quality of the vehicle would be affected by it being a repo vehicle.