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Emmys Stick It to Tom Cruise

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Posted on Jul 6, 2006
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The “South Park” episode that mocked Tom Cruise’s affiliation with Scientology is up for an Emmy.

AP:

One of the Emmy nominees for best animated program is the episode of “South Park” that’s said to have angered Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes.

The episode called “Trapped in the Closet” implies that Cruise is gay and makes fun of Scientology.

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By Lin, July 7, 2006 at 9:04 am #
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Doesn’t take much to anger Tom Cruise.. he appears to be a fuse just waiting for a match… Or a hot and sunny day - to make him explode.

Chalk it up to thin skinned people that can dish it when it suits them - Isaac Hayes has been at it for years on South Park, and I’m a fan of his - but give’em a little in return and they just boil right over.  C’mon Chef - get a giggle!

It’s PARODY .. and it’s delicious.

But then, I never was (and never will be) a Tom Cruise fan.

Gotta rate right up there with the Jesus hot-line.  Still makes me chuckle - and that was 10 years ago!

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By harald hardrada, July 7, 2006 at 2:28 am #
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all religions are cults: americans escape from reality by giving themselves up to the mindlessness of religiosity—america is living off its past glories—india & china, for instance, graduate far more scientists & engineers per capita than america does, but as a gung ho american said, ‘it’s because they have more people’

a telling point is that since nasa’s ex-nazi scientists have all died off, nasa has been muddling along doing bugger-all—some would blame politics but that’s bullshit—for many decades america benefited from the foreign brain-drain that came here—now that george w bush, darling of jesus freakdom, is in charge, the true calling of americans is shining through, as the same idiocy that lends itself to reading between the lines of biblical text is devoted to educating & coddling hordes of legal eagles who have nothing to give to society but who call the shots in washington

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