Watching Cruise lead a very impressionable, maleable, and rather dumb female down the dark path of Scientology makes me kinda queasy. That he is walking around telling everyone he knows--in absolutes--what's right and wrong and that we're all just living in a delusional fog, well, by golly, that earns Mr. Cruise a place on MediaWatchblog’s Movie Star Pig Fucker Hall of Lame. Read all about it Tom Cruise "tangles" with Matt Lauer on the Today show, if you call Lauer's pansy responses entangling or tough. While we give Lauer credit for even hitting on the Brooke Shields / Cruise pissing fight (instigated by Cruise), but he didn't nail him to the wall in spite of the heroic headlines Lauer is getting today. Check out Lauer’s gag-me-with-a-pitchfork gush after Cruise basically called Lauer a fool: At one point Cruise told Lauer, "You're glib" and said Lauer didn't know what he was talking about. The star launched into a detailed discussion of the use of the prescription drug Ritalin...."It's very impressive to listen to you," Lauer replied, "because clearly, you've done the homework. And you know the subject." Where are the hip waders dude! It's crotch deep in here! Here's what the Today interview looks like with MWB on the job: "So, you say you know the history of psychiatry, and that is why you call into question the entire field today. Do you understand the history of surgery, when they were using leeches and hot jars to cure people? If so, how do you reconcile visiting a doctor with a broken arm but not a broken spirit?" "You say you don't talk about things you don't understand. Then can you explain how serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, which prevent re-uptake of serotonin and thus increase the concentration of serotonin at the neural synapse, is not an effective method of increasing or stabilizing serotonin levels (a crucial component of one's overall mood) but paying Scientology a bunch of money does? What is that mechanism on the neural pathways, exactly?" I'd also ask Mr. Cruise, Knower of All things, doesn't Scientology demand that women not utter a single sound during childbirth even without pain medication, and that should they fail to do so, they have destroyed their children forever? Isn't this a bit medieval and cruel, and isn't this another sexist pig way for men to blame all the shortcomings of the children on the mother? I’d ask him, do you remember Andrea Yates? Not only did her cessation of medication cause her to plummet into a darkness and pit of mental hell Cruise could never understand, she was being given videos of a Christian freakshow dressed in a Satan outfit telling mothers they can irreparably serve their children up to the devil if they are "Bad." Funny how freakshow MEN hiding behind the cloak of rightousnous and religion always get to determine just what "Bad" women are. Isn't it, Mr. Cruise? Don't you find that an odd coincidence, Mr. Cruise? From the Christians to the Taliban to the Scientologists and back, the men get to decide what bad women are, get to take the self-righteous moral high ground, and women, at least those who can think straight, can thank jesus for giving them freedom in these United States. And for that, we give the big fat bird to movie star p-fers and everyone like them.