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Elisabeth Moss: Scientology PR 101

May 4, 2022 By Mike Rinder 19 Comments

  The recent New Yorker article piece by Michael Shulman has resulted in a ton of media pickups, mostly focused on her responses to questions about scientology. There have been a number of takes on this of interest: Martha Ross wrote an excellent piece in the SJ Mercury News     Martha quotes journalist Yashar Ali who tweeted:   And Tony Ortega added some thoughts from Geoff Levin who was extensively interviewed for the story, but little of it made it into print: Now, let me add some of my thoughts, as it was my job back in the day to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Elisabeth Moss, Gay Ribisi, Giovanni Ribisi, Handmaid's Tale, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Martha Ross, San Jose Mercury News, The Aftermath, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, Yashar Ali

Scientology Celebrities — Where Are You?

September 22, 2021 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

    The recent article about Laura Prepon where she announced she had not been in scientology for 5 years made me wonder how many of the other scientology celebrities may be "out." It's pretty common in the scientology world for people to simply stop participating, without making any big announcement. There is even a term for it these days: "under the radar." It spares the person the harassment that comes from declaring you are done, and in many instances the loss of friends and family or jobs. Laura Prepon hadn't made public statements about scientology for many years.  But … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Beck, Elisabeth Moss, Erika Christensen, Greta Van Susteren, Jenna Elfmann, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Katherine Bell, Kirstie Alley, Laura Prepon, Michael Pena, Nancy Cartwirght, Vonni Ribisi

Jenna Elfman — A Good Scientologist

March 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 67 Comments

  A recent article in US Weekly quotes Jenna Elfman about "the controversy" around scientology. She is a shining example of how a good scientologist acts and speaks. Foolishly. While scientologists proclaim they have "the tech" to protect them from suppressive influences and they learn to "confront and shatter" this sort of thing, in fact, they avoid "suppression" at any cost. And by "suppression" they mean anything that is negative or even questioning about scientology. When they are confronted by such things, they run from it. Close their eyes. Hold their hands of their ears … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: bankruptcy, Disconnection, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, media, shelly miscavige, Suppressives, Tom Cruise, US Weekly

Scientologists “Shattering” Suppression

February 17, 2020 By Mike Rinder 54 Comments

  This is a recent Facebook post from one of the deluded scientologists who believe they are "changing the world."   She actually believes the magazines disappeared from the shelves permanently? And even if they did, that she makes any difference to the impact of this story? Here is what she was so upset about, last week's Us Weekly (they are dated for the day they "expire" so readers don't think they are getting "old" fake news) cover story.... Typical of tabloid mags, the story actually doesn't have anything to do with the headlines. It reports on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: Danny Masterson, David Miscavige, Elisabeth Moss, June Middleton, Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Scientology, shelly miscavige, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, US Weekly, Val Haney

Scientology TV — What’s Missing?

December 9, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Scientology is making a really big deal about their new episode featuring Chick Corea. Chick is an interesting story that has been mentioned before. He got into financial troubles when his wife was hammering his credit cards. David Miscavige had known Chick for a long time because his father, Ron, was good friends with Ron Moss, Chick's manager. (Ron Moss is father of Elisabeth Moss of Handmaid's Tale fame). Miscavige was alerted to the problem and not wanting a "flap" with one of scientology's longest term celebrities, brought in Lyman Spurlock as a CPA to look through his finances. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, scientology TV Tagged With: Chick Corea, David Miscavige, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, public relations, Sci, Scientology, scientology TV, Tom Cruise

The Boycott is Working!

September 19, 2017 By Mike Rinder 213 Comments

Sometimes you really have to wonder at the intelligence of some of these bubble-dwellers. And their delusions of grandeur. Look at the crazy here. Just to be sure what she is taking credit for: Set aside her not too well thought through conclusions about deriding Trump -- this woman is on a rant about Leah winning an Emmy and THIS is why the ratings are down. Still, 11.4 million viewers is a BIG audience -- the same as last year before Trump was elected.  If you wonder about the audience of NW TV these days obviously you didn't watch the show and see how many awards Hulu and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology, The Aftermath Tagged With: Elisabeth Moss, Leah Remini, public relations, Scientology

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  • Real on Ron on Saturn: “Oh it CAN and been tested Mike. ALL tests against claimed new abilities have FAILED. THAT is how the scientific…” Jun 29, 11:37
  • safetyguy on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “And LRH was writing hay processed through the bowels of a male bovine if one asks me.” Jun 29, 11:09
  • grisianfarce on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “30 years of research means he started in 1933? Not that he ever published the research for any of it…” Jun 29, 10:57
  • Mary Kahn on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “It’s a well-researched, scientific fact.” Jun 29, 10:49
  • SL1978 on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: ““communicate with a beetle under a rock” lmao – Free us Ron!” Jun 29, 09:43
  • otherles on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “LRH may have been on drugs. So were the authors of The Illuminatus! trilogy. At least they had the decency…” Jun 29, 09:35
  • otherles on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “An honest researcher would conclude that LRH was insane.” Jun 29, 09:30
  • Mary Kahn on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “Truth is truth. Water doesn’t need permission to run downhill. Therefore, what I say here is true.” Jun 29, 09:10
  • safetyguy on L. Ron Hubbard Has Been to Heaven: He Has the Scientific Research to Prove It: “That must have been some goooood drugs he was on. Really good drugs.” Jun 29, 08:21
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