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I never thought I'd side with Rupert Murdoch but...

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  • #2
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Oh God Biggins, not today as well.


    Can't you just call Tom Cruise gay again?


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    brummytom wrote: »
    Oh God Biggins, not today as well.

    Can't you just call Tom Cruise gay again?

    :pac:

    :p

    This is about an old duffer with too much money and power.
    Never thought I'd agree with something he says! :D

    I'll go stand in the corner now! :o


  • #4
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Biggins wrote: »
    :pac:

    :p

    This is about an old duffer with too much money and power.
    Never thought I'd agree with something he says! :D

    Lets see...you are currently looking for work in media and it's either cozing up to Murdoch with this thread, or prostitution.



    (BTW, Murdoch is the baddy in MacGyver. I have never forgotten that!)


  • #5
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Interesting article on NY Post site.....

    http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/best_supporting_actress_REdKcnpi4xPjBFGO4Yjp4M/0


  • #6
    CavanCrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭CavanCrew


    Biggins I got somebody just as interesting for you to follow

    https://twitter.com/#!/PigeonJon

    "My Name's Jon and I'm a ****ing pigeon."

    Thank me later.


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  • #7
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Red Hand wrote: »
    (BTW, Murdoch is the baddy in MacGyver. I have never forgotten that!)

    Was that after he left the A-Team?


  • #8
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    CavanCrew wrote: »
    Biggins I got somebody just as interesting for you to follow

    https://twitter.com/#!/PigeonJon

    "My Name's Jon and I'm a ****ing pigeon."

    Thank me later.

    I'll do it now! :D

    Hope to be busy with the wifey later! ;)


  • #9
    CavanCrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭CavanCrew


    Biggins wrote: »
    I'll do it now! :D

    Hope to be busy with the wifey later! ;)

    I think I just vomited a little in my mouth :(


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Pantsface wrote: »
    Interesting article on NY Post site.....

    http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/best_supporting_actress_REdKcnpi4xPjBFGO4Yjp4M/0

    Cheers. Its a great detailed article.
    Amazing what lengths the cult will go to!
    Scientology leader Miscavige, for help in finding a new wife. The diminutive church boss, who has a notoriously volcanic temper, became irritated with constant calls from Tom. As the head of a multibillion-dollar operation, he felt it was below him to be seeking out women for the Hollywood star. He deputized his wife, Shelly, to take over the task.

    The first girl she chose seemed ideal. She was a Sea Org member, that is to say committed to working full time for Scientology. The girl found herself “running into” Cruise, all the while thinking she was auditioning for a part in a movie. She dated Cruise a couple of times but then asked Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis, the son of actress Anne Archer, if she was being deliberately “set up.”

    Her reward was to be told by Davis on Cruise’s behalf that the relationship was over. Then, according to friends, she was sent to a top security Scientology base and forced to scrub public bathroom floors with a toothbrush as punishment for messing up her assignment.

    The last paragraph does not shock me - even though it should - I've read and heard direct accounts from ex-members before.

    By the way did you know Jamie DeWolf (great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard), Gerry Armstrong and Tory 'ToryMagoo44' Christman was in Dublin yesterday and today?
    Out protesting en-mass with a usual protesting group.

    Jamie:
    Jamie’s mother and ex-girlfriend have been visited by Scientology agents asking about his references to Scientology in his poetry. As he put in his own words – “In high school, a psychiatrist asked me if I had a history of mental illness in my family. I had to say…YES!”

    :D


  • #11
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Scientology has nothing on Rupert Murdoch's media empire as far as cults go. That's one of the world's most dangerous cults. Scientology can be dealt with, but peddle-pushing propaganda machines, and the cult that follow them are much more difficult to tackle.


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  • #12
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    brummytom wrote: »
    Oh God Biggins, not today as well.


    Can't you just call Tom Cruise gay again?

    You said that before Biggins? How did I miss that? :pac:


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Scientology has nothing on Rupert Murdoch's media empire as far as cults go. That's one of the world's most dangerous cults. Scientology can be dealt with, but peddle-pushing propaganda machines, and the cult that follow them are much more difficult to tackle.

    Well the Scientology lot probably learned a lot from Murdochs methods I suspect! :(

    Edit: You'd think journal.ie would give me credit for posting this item?
    An hour after I post about something buried in the Huffington Post with links:

    http://www.thejournal.ie/rupert-murdoch-scientology-twitter-tom-cruise-katie-holmes-506464-Jul2012/

    LOL


  • #14
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    Ya scientology are a wierd cult,they even have a town in america devoted to all scientology followers,there was a documentary done about it some years ago,and people(the followers and the peddlers of that cult)even followed journalists around in jeeps and were ringing on their mobiles..I found that to be scary..


  • #15
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Scientology has nothing on Rupert Murdoch's media empire as far as cults go. That's one of the world's most dangerous cults. Scientology can be dealt with, but peddle-pushing propaganda machines, and the cult that follow them are much more difficult to tackle.

    I heard someone calling Murdoch a cult, or I think that's what they said.:confused:


  • #16
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    What perks up my interest Biggins is this tweet (that you quoted):

    Watch Katie Holmes and Scientology story develop. Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people.

    It's intriguing that Murdoch sees himself as someone who sits back and watches stories develop in the media.....rather than actively pursuing and managing how they are treated. Perhaps I'm overestimating his role in actually manipulating stories....I've believed the anti-Murdoch hype.

    PS - yes - scientologists - mad as a bag of scientologists


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