Yup, Scientology’s Still Creepy

Watercooler

By Flipit | Sunday, October 25, 2009 | 11:00 pm | 5 Comments
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TVNewser – On Friday night’s Nightline, things got ugly in a report on Scientology. So ugly that the interviewee got up and walked off the set. The confrontation begins at the 3:40 mark in the video below, when Martin Bashir dares to ask Scientology Spokesman Tommy Davis about his (alleged) belief that Xenu imprisoned demon souls in volcanoes a quadrillion years ago that are now latched on to and ruining the lives of celebrities that don’t give the church a decent cut of their incomes. Sounds reasonable, no? Have a look.

Well, I’ll be! That was downright offensive of Martin! Notice that Tommy never said “no that’s all crazy talk and no one believes that we are possessed by demons unless we fork over money to the church and swallow Niacin,” he just gets offended that the question is even asked. That information is for church elders only!! You can’t just smoke one Marlboro and expect to find a sun visor with a cowboy on it in your mailbox, you have to smoke cartons and cartons and save up your Marlboro Miles for that shit! The prizes are only for the true addicts, Martin!

This wasn’t the fireworks show it could have been, considering that Bashier’s star making interview was the documentary “Living With Michael,” which finally opened the doors on Michael Jackson’s bizarro world for all of us to see, but it’s good to see Martin’s still out there stirring it up. Now off to swallow my Niacin.

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    itchy
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Everytime I read or hear anything about Scientology it makes me giggle.

    But then, there are hundreds of millions of people in the world who believe the christ myth too.

    And billions more who claim to believe in a “god” in general.

    I then I stop giggling, and just start to sing:

    You say Xenu, I say Jesu, you say Mohammed, I say Mel Brooks …let’s call the whole thing off.

    Dee-doo
    dee-doo-dee-doodly
    -doo-dee-dah-dah…

  2. 2
    georgiababe
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Well bah humbug, I can’t become a Scientologist even if I wanted to! I’m deathly allergic to niacin.

  3. 3
    flipit
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    i knew a religious story would bring the itchy out!! and georgia, i’m sorry that you can never be cleared. ;(

  4. 4
    pixielated
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Wow, most religious groups would be happy to talk about their beliefs. When I heard about the guy stalking out, I was sure that Bashir asked whether scientology was a legitimate religion, but he just asked about their beliefs. Weird.

  5. 5
    itchy
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:59 am

    Ah, yeah, you got me…just can’t help scratching…

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