Scientology and Softballs

"Mr. Cruise, do you believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler named Xenu deposited trillions of paralyzed alien bodies on earth and then destroyed them with H-bombs? "Mr Cruise, do you believe that the souls of these creatures, known as "thetans," inhabit the bodies of present day humans?" Wouldn't you love to watch that interview?
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Kevin Drum at WashingtonMonthly.com has a smart piece about all the softball questions that interviewers are lobbing at Tom Cruise.

"I'm actually getting a little tired of Cruise—and Scientology—being treated as some kind of cutesy human interest story," Drum writes. "...If someone wants to really interview Cruise about space aliens they should ask him a few questions like these:
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"Mr. Cruise, do you believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler named Xenu deposited trillions of paralyzed alien bodies on earth and then destroyed them with H-bombs?

"Mr Cruise, do you believe that the souls of these creatures, known as "thetans," inhabit the bodies of present day humans?"

Wouldn't you love to watch that interview?

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