August 1, 2015
ALL COMEDY IS CONSERVATIVE:
No interviewers are asking Tom Cruise about Scientology. Here's why that's not surprising. (Emily Yahr, July 31, 2015, Washington Post)
It's the extremely obvious elephant in the room and it's impossible to overlook. Earlier this week, TheWrap reported that reporters are banned from asking Cruise about his dating life or Scientology. "At the very least, Cruise is the highest-profile advocate for an institution that's been repeatedly charged with human-rights abuses over the past few decades," The Atlantic's Sophie Gilbert wrote. "If [accounts] are accurate, he's the second most-powerful person in Scientology, and he's completely insulated from even the most irreverent television personalities in the country asking him questions about it."Gilbert points out the strangeness of "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, a master at calling out hypocrisy, interviewing Cruise this week and completely gliding over the topic, instead bantering about workout routines.
(A) What could be funnier than Mr. Speaking-truth-to-Power being cowed by a cult?
and
(B) I'm in the middle of Lawrence Wrigh't book, Going Clear, and it is, predictably, a great read. However odd you think Hubbard and his followers are, multiply that by googleplex.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 1, 2015 9:13 AM
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