It is a watershed day.
The single best measure of having hit the mainstream of societal relevance in the US is to be the subject of a skit on SNL.
Scientology has truly hit the big time. And not in a good way.
Tony Ortega has done a brilliant breakdown and analysis of the skit from last night on his blog this morning.
What an Easter Sunday gift this is, no matter your religious beliefs. Except perhaps if you are a scientologist.
I have watched it several times and each time I see more subtle digs. There are some people at SNL who know their scientology trivia. A fact that is becoming increasingly true in media outlets around the world. And that is NOT good for David Miscavige and his cult of crazies.
FINALLY! I have been saying for YEARS,when will SNL do a skit about $cientology? I know they have all these years because of the litigation loving DM,but I am so happy,the media is not afraid of this Psycho anymore!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait for the Gov. To declare it a self help club,then seize all realestate the parishioners paid for. But justice does not prevail in the USA when it involves organizations with money and human rights abuses!! The american gov. Was invented to protect the ppl. From entities that are not people,well that flipped 10 fold and it does just what was not intended. $ corrupts ABSOLUTELY.
And any thetan will get “pink eye” for watching
Is there another Cindy besides me posting?
Am I the only one that thinks the “god” stick figure drawing is Pie Faced?
For anyone blocked in viewing it due to geography, here’s a direct link which I found does work: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/neurotology-music-video/2857083
P.S. It’s so incredibly accurate, lmfao.
Apparently Tosh.o has got a Scientology parody coming this tues.
My only concern is that many of the people watching this SNL parody won’t be able to appreciate how spot on this spoof is. This is SO MUCH WIN! Scientology is already dead, hopefully this will get some of the few people who are still in, out.
Not true Thomas, my daughter who has only watched the documentary “Going Clear” thought it was hilarious. She pointed out to me some of the digs. As two never-ins, we both were rofl!
I wonder how they’ll respond. The Co$ has no sense of humour.
Go over to Tony Ortega I told the story!
SNL has a viewer base of about two million I believe. Ouch, that must smart little cobby boy.
Well Davie did say he wanted to smash his name into history. He just did that with the SNL skit. Only instead of famous, he is now infamous.
LRH was the one who wanted to ‘smash his name into history’. 5’1 wants to smash his fist into someone’s bellybutton (because he can’t reach they face)
I just.love the fact that even standing on an apple box, COB is by far the shortest man in the room. C’mon postulate a couple of inches…….!
Mike,
Really enjoyed your interviews with Megyn; especially loved your humor!
Between the documentary & consequent (remarkably accurate) skit, seems we have the makings of ‘Group Justice’.
In a 4 week period, decades of OSA’s “safepointing” has been completely undone.
How demoralizing it must be for them to see 20 years work just washed forever away
in a tsunami of truth, and satire.
Add SNL to the roster of heroes!
Wow, I was thinking yesterday that there would probably be a big lull in the press until Going Clear gets nominated for an Academy award. I sure was wrong on that one.
With Fox news and Megyn Kelly, HBO, SNL and most of the tabloids jumping on without apology, Hollywood seems to be in a bit of a getting-even binge.
A little off-topic, but relevant is LAPD. For many years the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project in conjunction with CCI has been raising funds for P.A.L. (The Police Activities League). PAL is a decent program and so is H.E.L.P. I would guess that someone from OSA used the good will generated by HELP and PAL over the years to have somehow influenced that cop to visit Tom Devocht on the bogus drug allegations. With all this animosity toward the church festering over the years and now exploding into a full scale plague, it would seem that any goodwill is going to soon be destroyed and LAPD will be far more likely to turn on the church and cease to do them any favors.
When push comes to shove, members of the LAPD are not going to maintain friendly relations with CCI when the vast majority of the Hollywood crowd is out for their blood.
By the time this is done, Miscavige and his OSA goons will have successfully destroyed any goodwill that others have established over the years. Well done, Dave. You’re such an upstat.
Now that I know about Meepthorp, I can truly have a wonderful Easter! Happy Easter to all…and to all a good night! Meepthorp will be watching over us to protect us.
Oh! One more thing! This cult is now the laughing stock of Teegeeack and planets beyond…
I love this parody of the CoS.
The Miscagive character got the eyes, facial and body expression down really well. It made me think of that unflattering photo that is frequently posted of Miscavige speaking and gesturing from the podium looking like an intense fanatic.
The LRH character was great with his flair. Really funny.
P.S.: This means the entire United States and maybe even Canada saw this video and are having a big laugh today. The rest of the world is watching it on YouTube. Wonderful. Hey, Davie boy, there’s no escape for you this time!!! Eeeeeeeaaaaat meeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A lot of sheeple who also watch SNL also saw it and they’ll wonder what’s going on! Ahhhh, it’s a great day to be alive.
Hilarious! Laughed through the entire video. They did it so perfectly, I think somebody at SNL must have been a Scizo at some time. The photos of Ron are so good. I love the one of him saluting. When you see it in passing, you’d swear it’s really him. I just went straight up and vertically up the tone scale.
Thanks,SNL and thanks, Mike for putting it here.
“I think somebody at SNL must have been a Scizo at some time.”
Or they had a damn good consultant.
There’s just so much packed into this 3-min. video that it’s a must-watch several times to get most of the references.
Congratulations to Scientology for finally making the big times! (heh, heh, heh)
A memo to all of the Indies who hate Scientologists being referred to as “clams”, “Scilons”, etc. From now on, you are hereby dubbed “Children of Meeproyd”. Live with it.
Yup, name calling always brings some color to a discussion and enriches the debate by lighting up emotions.
You may want to check on Marty’s last two posts.
Gerhard, if you happen to see this — you make a couple of points very nicely in this “name calling” comment. Thank you.
Freedom Magazine may be hiring. They like the name calling stuff too.
Once upon a time this video would have been totally inside. Thanks to Miscavige, it’s BPI.
So well done. So funny!
SNL helped capture an entirely different market demographic! Twitter will expand to other markets (read: people to educate).
Brilliant SNL writers to parody the horrifying facts about this cult!
I can just see Scientologists at home “innocently” watching some SNL. And suddenly they’re squirming and flinching trying in vain to dodge the “entheta”* firing at them from the TV. Now fast forward to Thursday 2pm when the stats are once again DOWN! I can just see the O/W writing ups and those poor souls trying desperately to figure out how they managed to “pulled in” that entheta. But best of all is how they will calm to feel better after managing to some how take responsibility for it and how they know that next Thursday stats will vertical for sure!!
*Entheta is just disturbed theta. The real definition of theta is simply thought, reason, etc. However, in the church Entheta is anything that disturbs the thought patterns enforced by the church.
For the Never ins:
People will have to explain their down statics and one reason for down stats is that you were exposed to anti-Scientology materials or “entheta.” Now, it is of course always the person’s own fault for having been exposed to these materials. Yes, even if someone else tried to shove it down their throats they must have “pulled it in”. So he will need to find something he did to make him deserving of the “entheta…” And then he will have to tell people he feels better for having found or made up how he managed “pull in” seeing the entheta.
Big time is right! I think my favorite shot is the one of LRH wearing the ascot. You’re right, Mike. These guys did their research.
I watched it and all I can say is that the Tipping Point has arrived…. Scientology: Done, sir!
All that’s needed now is a game of re-tweet bingo. Should Katie Holmes or LMP be my center square?
My hat off to SNL!
They have brilliant writers and there must have been somebody with inside knowledge been involved in this.
(Anybody get the reference to PAC base, and “is living in a hospital”?)
The only thing they should have done differently is; they should have had a tiny person portray Miscabbage, that would have gotten to him a little more I think.
I think a tall person would get to him. It’s him as he’ll never be.
Puts his knickers in a twist about filing a lawsuit.
Probably couldn’t find anybody short enough.
Hats off to SNL! The BEST part was that nobody knew it was coming and so nobody could be told not to watch SNL. Oh joy! I went to sleep last night with the biggest smile on my face.
Surprise Easter Egg for you . . .
Jenna Miscavige’s book Beyond Belief: My Secret
Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
$1.99 on Amazon today
“I have watched it several times and each time I see more subtle digs.”
ME TOO. I love it!
Great karma IMHO. You accuse DeVo of being a drug dealer because he has bags of almonds and popcorn in his car, you get ridiculed on nationwide TV. All I can say is it’s about time. I sincerely hope multiple hits keep raining down from all directions.
Revenge is a dish best served cold and I say we have long ben waiting our turn.
Happy Easter to all. I’m going back to enjoy the rest of an adventurous spring break with some of my grandkids and great grandson I hope I survive 😉
It is now a FELONY, throughout California and elsewhere, to use Law Enforcement to harass through false reports.
@threefeet
I know from experience that is the case in our state too.
My husband’s daughter tried to pull it on her ex husband and did jail time for it. I laughed because damn if she didn’t deserve it. The poor guy was just trying to live his life (away from her). Her father refused to post bail too.
I hope people harassing DeVo et al get similar treatment.
Signs of Success? Lol…
An Easter Irony. Students of early Christianity know that most of the twelve apostles came to rather unfortunate ends. Their martyerdom however was later used by the early church as a recruiting tool. HOWEVER imagine what would have happened to Christianity, had it been say Peter, bumping his rivals off. The SNL video implies repeatedly that it is the church of neurotology who is persecuting it’s own members, apparently on the behalf of “Mr. Billionare”. No sane person would want to join such a religious organization.
After having watched both versions, I now have two earworms in my head fighting each other.
Help?
You, too?! D:
I was spending a perfectly pleasant afternoon sewing–only to realize I was humming along to that cheesy Scieno anthem.
I might just have to walk to the store and buy myself a few bags of leftover Easter candy to take my mind off it…
Exactly what I was hoping for and I still hope this keeps coming and coming and coming. This should become a regular laugh fest for american comedians.
Taking the CO$ in its current state seriously is almost giving them too much honor.
At this stage the best way to deal with them is laughing them out of town.
If any sheeple mentions Scientology he should not see concerned faces but people peeing themselves because they laugh so hard. That would raise some doubts.
Thanks Easter Bunny for this SNL skit…Karma or Big Time Motivators can come from the strangest places…
Ecclesiastical leader sings:
Words from a crook showed me the way
To be free from a conscience, night and day
Now the price of this con game you all must pay From now on
Rising to power I held my ground
And silenced the voices, till they went down
Suppressing the will of others, I stood tall
I decided to make my stand and shit on the rights of man…
I stand tall, no turning back, I found the way
I stand tall, forever strong, I’ll live on.
I stand tall
Knowing the truth you’ll never see
Raking in millions, it’s all tax free
To a future that’s built on hypocrisy
I stand tall
And no legacy is secure
On that you can be sure
I stand tall, no turning back, i found the way
I stand tall, forever strong, I’ll live on.
I stand tall
Hey ladi da, Hey mommy I stand tall
Hey ladi da, Hey mommy I stand tall
Hey ladi da, Hey mommy I stand tall
Ad nauseum…
Now the price of this con game you must pay…From now on…
Inspired Mallen!
Thanks EXSO. Calling it like I see it.
Mike wrote:
“The single best measure of having hit the mainstream of societal relevance in the US is to be the subject of a skit on SNL.”
They even had a shot of a gymnast doing a high bar routine!
This was a great way to start my holiday.
Easter is truly a time of renewal, thanks to Neurotology.
Alanzo
The Meepthorp reference could be a parody of Cruise’s real last name.
+1
Hey! I resent that! I’m a proud child of Meepthorp! Hail Meepthorp!
Right Bob, “Maypother”. It’s very close, isn’t it?
Tom Cruise is the very best Scientologist ever too. Don’t forget it!
That gave me lots of good laughs. Great job. Another warning to society.
“I have watched it several times and each time I see more subtle digs. There are some people at SNL who know their scientology trivia.”
Agreed. They know their scientology trivia so well that I would suspect someone at SNL is a former church member For them to have picked up so much on a secondhand information basis from just one documentary, or even including lots of other media items, is hard to imagine. I would say it was either firsthand knowledge or a long, concentrated study of it must have had been made – which still sounds like someone at SNL has been personally involved somehow, maybe even through a family member or such.
ever herd of consultants?
Same basic idea. Someone involved with the production knew a LOT.
No, but it was noted that a SNL writer was a regular commenter at Tony’s Village Voice blog on Scientology a few years back. There is a wealth of material online about Scientology, most “in” members actually don’t know that much about the cult’s inner workings, absurdities and abuses. (They aren’t allowed to know or ask about such things.) I’ve never been a member, only a voracious reader about the cult for many years, and I easily knew all the associated trivia with that skit. Tony Ortega is a virtual encyclopedia of CoS history and stories but has never been a member. Lawrence Wright, Paulette Cooper, Tobins and Childs, etc… all never members who know more about the cult than almost any current or former member.
Absolutely hilarious!!!!
If Miscavige ever had the nerve to speak up in defense of all this ridicule, then the next SNL would be Dana Carvey (The Church Lady) playing Miss Cabbage drop kicking a pregnant women over the goal post in the RFL..Religious Football League.
This Scientology organization may turn out to hold the all time record for the largest “religious organization” to ever have failed so utterly in so short a period of time… from devout to demolished in 30 years. Way to go David Miscavige.
Dave,
We will be keeping an eye on TCs hangars at the Burbank Airport and the Santa Monica Airport for your exit. Did you learn about SNL from Lou? Have you been up all night?
This was SO brilliant. Bobby Moynahan who was playing the LRH character NAILED it as well as Taran Killiam who was doing his Best COB they flattered him with a tall actor but he nailed it as well. I was also loving the Nicole Kidman 90’s wig that Kate McKinnon was wearing. So hilarious and when you watch it a few times and actually hear all the words, BRILLIANT! Kudos to SNL and the writers there for skewering Scientology as only they can.
Agreed!
It was hilarious. I at first thought the picture of Ron was real. Excellent job they did. I at first missed the saluting like the Nazi’s also the leader was obviously standing on a box behind the podium.
Although I am a Buddhist and an atheist, I want to wish you and yours the best of Easters, Mike! It’s a wonderful day to notice things coming to life again…and I hope many caught up in Co$ will begin to grow out into the world they left or perhaps were not born into. Thanks to you for informing me every morning and also making me laugh with your hilarious writing. At the very least escapees can discover that being free allows them to have the pleasure of laughing and thinking that your site provides.
The SNL parody is a chocolate egg for all of us to enjoy.
Hey Chuck,
Riffing on a related, parallel theme: someone needs to write and record a tune entitled ¨Soul Astronaut¨ (maybe a 60´s Motown vibe?) and then make a video with you and Mike and Marty and Tom D and Tony O and Tory and a bevy of SP´s lip-synching the lyrics…
Oh boy, this is bad for his Popish Image. And not only he has to worry about this (and more to come), but also about his best buddy who also is getting intense media due to his connections with his church.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientology-almost-ruined-tom-cruise-174052502.html
I should change my alias to DiaMetrician or DiaMetricist. Sounds like a cool new cult to join!
Incidentally, I never even knew the song or video ‘We Stand Tall’ existed until I began to inform myself on the Internet. Guess it was never that popular overseas.
Don’t worry Dollar, you didn’t miss much.
Happy Easter.
So I see.
Happy Easter 😀
I’m waiting for the movie.
Sociopaths and bullies never like to be laughed at. SNL is often the voice of the vox populi and this skit put one more big nail on the lid of the coffin. The only thing missing was Bobby Moynahan staring intently at an electrified tomato.
The chatter and natter and joking and degrading will be so much fun to watch. $cientology can’t really do anything, the Streisand Effect will be out in full force if they buy ads in the NY Times or USA Today. Stick a fork in the clams, they are done.
Oh please Tiny Man, put ads in USA Today about the crimes of SNL !! That way even more millions will see the great parody of We Stand Tall.
Which considering Tiny Man is pretty funny. And we all know that the die-hards have no sense of humor.
As I started watching SNL last night I was hoping and expecting them to spoof Scientology as a result of “Going Clear” being aired on HBO. They did not disappoint!!!
Mike, for some reason I was not allowed to watch the video (for my Country). The solution: just YouTube “Church of Neurotology” and voilá!
Yes, I can’t watch it either in my country. I tried on Tony’s blog. It is a YouTube video.
I love the parody! Mike, I was watching Going Clear again last night with my daughter and she noticed that in the clip when you were vehemently denying to John Sweeney that DM assaulted you, you were also vigorously nodding your head “yes”!!! We also noticed that DM was shaking his head “no” when he was announcing that LRH had dropped his body. Body language can be telling!
Oh, and Elizabeth Moss … Fred Armisen says, “Fuck you!”
🙂
A book by a Pulitzer prize-winning author, a documentary by an Academy-award winning producer/director, an SNL skit that becomes a classic.
“Hollywood” just dropped the mic!
It’s a wet dream come true. (I apologize to my mother.)
Thank you SNL for making my Easter morning! I hope they don’t stop making fun of Scn.
This is truly brilliant. I wonder if there’s a lawsuit in the way 🙂
Oh please, sue SNL; do that, dave, do that.
No.
What Tiny Fists fears and hates the most: ridicule and being laughed at and the butt of jokes. Could a psychotic break be just around the corner?
Cindy….one can dream.
Yes.
How will anyone be able to tell?
LOLOLOLOL! Exactly, missbluegown. 😀
🙂 🙂 🙂
Cindy, you could be right. Let’s find a pschiatrist to help us with this one. This could well be the way to get him to crack and make a public fool of himself, so much so, that his minions have to drag him away from the camera’s and mike.
Would that be a great video for someone t leak?
Imagine an SNL spoof of Gold Base movie production.
IN reality “Why TRs” which starred Isaac Hayes, will always be a potential gag material.
The far distant other planet settings shown in the script of “Why TRs” and young reborn Scientologists on other planets are just dying to be depicted.
Students of the Briefing Course today see “Why TRs” and learn their roles up the road, many lifetimes ahead, what might befall them on other planets if they don’t learn Hubbard’s “tech” seriously enough here and now.
Late night Broadcast television has found the Goldmine that every T.V. writer
and producer spends a career searching for.
Gosh!!!
I hope some ex Int Base staff tell of their years doing “Actor” jobs on the base, and the fricking “Actors Hat” that everyone had to do to play their parts in the Gold video/movies!
Scientology’s in house videos with their corny self acting Int Base staffers as actors, peg Scientology’s marketing presentation to a unique type of “simulated realism” (remember the “cine advices” on “simulated realism” that LRH went on and on about, with “simulated realism” being the fake movie reality that the public expects out of movies, and Hubbard saying reality had to be “simulated reality” to fit the public’s expectations!)
I haven’t had my 1st cup of coffee yet, and I’m laughing with tears running down my face! SNL laughing at DM & scientology. Truly the best holiday gift ever. Thank xenu for HBO & Going Clear. The floodgates are opened.
I want to hear what Mark Fisher and Hiro Kimoto have to say about the hours they all spent doing the re-takes to get the original We Stand Tall “perfect”.
Chuck what I remember about this song and video is that it was done sometime in the late winter/early spring in 1990. It is just a few weeks or days before I am removed from my post of working for DM for “disaffection” over the removal of my ex wife Julie and her being sent to the RPF.
The song was written by Rick Cruzen if I recall, and I am sure Peter Schless (whose famous for having written the music for the 80’s hit song “On the WIngs of Love” ) probably contributed to the arrangement and chorus. The song and video was going to be used at some event – either March 13th or the Freewinds Anniversary Cruise.
The male singer is David Pomeranz whose claim to fame is unfortunately, having been the singer on this song and also some songs on the “Road to Freedom” album in 1986. I don’t remember who the female singer is.
The Gold Movie shoot crew did the filming and I think Ted Horner was involved in directing it to make sure it came off the way Miscavige wanted it.
All of RTC, CMO International Management and the Exec Strata were brought to the LRH Music Studio to record the chorus and film what you see in the video. We were told to wear nice casual sweaters if I recall. DM of course wanted to stand out so wore that hideous Hermes Shirt/Sweater.
The key executives of Scientology Management were all positioned in the front row and you know how you ranked in the hierarchy based on your position in the video. I was in the second row and you can see my head behind Marc Yagers.
DM is standing on an “applebox” because he is so short. An applebox is a wooden box used in Movies to make short actors look taller when shot from the waist up.
Someone was there as the Music Director. I think Rick Cruzen or Peter Schless, to run down the lyrics we all had to sing and then we shot the video a few times with the camera’s moving across the large studio from left to right and then back again.
I remember we had to do it a few times because DM was not happy with how Ray Mithoff looked when he was singing and he seemed to not be on time with the rest of us. But it didn’t take too long to do and we were done.
The video was then edited and mixed and released at the event. It was a big hit at the time and Gold produced the video and cassettes for sale and they sold thousands of them.
I think at the time we were all very proud of the song and the results and although it is very cheesy and corny today, the song does have a hook to it and I challenge you to get the chorus of “Hey La De Dah, Hey La De We Stand Tall !! ” out of your head ! Ha ha!
SNL did a brilliant parody and Mike is right. Once SNL gets ahold of you and makes fun of the truly ridiculous, it is hard to get that image out of the public’s mind. Best example – when Tina Fey did her Sarah Palin impersonation. Palin was never really taken seriously again.
Thanks, great history, you have such an excellent memory. Hey la de la, indeed. Some of the people bounce a little out of beat and that always caught my notice, and the SNL actors caught that subtle feigned Int Base staff actor style.
The jokers & degraders got it right, laughter is the best medicine.
The Joker in the deck has been asserting that lampooning Dave, to get him out of the way, is an obsessive waste of time and effort.
The SNL leader actor’s aggressive arm around the should of the Jenny DeVocht woman near the final shots, speaks of exactly that insider knowledge of Miscavige’s behavior.
I hope Tony interviews the fun these actors all had doing this spoof of We Stand Tall! Actors all the way back to the back rows were hilarious to watch.
It’s the funniest media entertainment of the decade on Scientology.
Wondering, do you who the writer and/or singer of the original anthem was, and I’m dying to know if they’re still in?
Mark Fisher posted a comment about his involvement and background to “We Stand Tall”
http://tonyortega.org/2015/04/05/saturday-night-lives-genius-spoof-of-scientology-last-night-lyrics-and-images/#comment-1947530397
The song was Peter Schless’s idea. He wrote the music and came up with the line “We Stand Tall. The rest of the lyrics were written by Mark Scheckter (probably spelled his name wrong). Sung by David Pomeranz.
Peter Schless, whithering at Int.
Sad
Ridicule
1. “speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing”
Well done Dave,… this is what all of your actions and leadership has finally brought you.
A leader of leaders. TC
Many kool-aid guzzlers watch SNL. Probably not so much anymore. They got to be thinking WTF? These all can’t be “signs of success.” How they reconcile the attacks and jokes with LRH ideal comment – the PR area control would be such that no one would dream of attacking it. That train left the station quite a while ago.
I believe Miscarriage will probably just say something along the lines of “When Scientology is prospering and flourishing on the most unprecedented level history. You know that the SPs can’t stand it and they will come out of the wood-work to attack us because we are the most ethical group on the planet. These attacks prove that we are truly taking the planet.”
And worse still is that many Bubblers will grab that anchor to the bottom rather then float up with the truth because the sun is just too bright.
Right, Shelgold. Which is it, I would be asking myself. If Scientology is straight up and vertical with incredible blows being struck to shatter, shudder, and destroy the SPs, then how is it my org is empty and SNL puts on a skit like that with impunity?
Am I in the savior-of-the-universe group, or the biggest laughing stock of a slew of ridiculous religions where mine stands out in its pseudoscience and cruel effects on people, families, and society?
The beautiful thing was the sneaky roll-out of the piece. No time to react. No time to warn off the guzzlers. It just landed in their collective laps. SNL went to school on Gibney. Also, absolutely nothing they can point to and say ‘its a lie’ or ‘they’re all liars’.
Kool aid may be kool aid, but it isn’t brain bleach. They can’t un-watch it.
Brilliant.
Signs of Sucksess.
Shel, having been long gone, I wouldn’t know how many watch it now, but I remember Mork and Mindy and SNL were both approved fare when I was in. Yes I am that old.
Instead of DiaMetrics, I would suggest Diuretics. A diuretic is a substance (food, medicine, herb) that increases urination, and the criminal cult of $cientology (figurativly) “pisses on” their members.
The cult movie Repo Man had a sub plot of a government agent trying to “disseminate” a book called “Diuretics, the science of matter over mind”. https://youtu.be/WWWLhqQsu_o?t=49
These comments get funnier by the minute. I’m in stitches.
+100
That’s already been done, in the classic cult film REPO MAN from 1984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWLhqQsu_o
Visitor, even back in the late 70’s when I was still in, we called it (with whispers behind closed doors) Diamondetics and Scamatology because we knew they were all about the money. I almost choked at the word Diametrics. At least one ex-Scientologist worked on or consulted on that song.
To bring down the CoS it isn’t enough that criminality and moral bankruptcy be exposed, it must be ridiculed and laughed at on television!
Agreed, Roger.
I find it eerily correct. I was surprised how SNL gets it!
It is a good day.
If you walked into the SNL offices and whistled a few bars of We Stand Tall, you’d probably have things thrown at you. By now, after watching the original video again and again, it’s going to takes ages to scrub that tune out of their heads.
Oh no kidding. They gotta be so sick of watching that video to the schtick this right!
That’s probably true! Though I do hope this work goes VIRAL.
They are doing mankind a great service for their suffering. I will send them a big thank you card with tickets to an incredibly loud concert to drown out the music in their heads.
As a survivor of the original video that must have brought back the memories, Mike. Any prediction how tiny fists will respond?
Respond? Deep depression. The overwhelming forces are closing in on his bunker, and they are laughing at him. WOrst nightmare scenario.
The very thought of DM hunkering down in his bunker as the world laughs at HIM, makes me feel warm & fuzzy all over………..
Oh Gawd!! I love the thought of bringing down evil personified.
I can’t wait until the next hammer falls and the next and the next…. until this evil personified is straight down and horizontal.
Squashed like a bug.
I am just hoping he was watching SNL as it was played on the air (and not a replay). I would have loved to see the air in the room change to ice and the minions looking for cover.
Chee,
Perhaps Shelly saw it live and unedited at Twin Peaks on Saturday night, too.
I’ve been wanting to ask, in the real WST video, was the crowd lip-synching on the “Hey! La-Di-Dah’s”?
Yes — you would not want to hear me sing. It has been likened to the sound of a walrus dying of a brain tumor. I suspect many of the other participants were not much better.
On the YouTube video of LRH singing Thank You For Listening, a commenter describes it as “a beluga whale being raped by the Eighties”
It sure looked like Heber was belting it out.
So did they get a choir to sing the actual We Stand Tall song on that video? Was the lip sinking just on the La De Da parts or on all of it?
@Robert E: Somehow I had managed to avoid listening to LRH singing “Thank You for Listening.” So I just listened to it. Hubbard shows the problem with people who are unskilled and unaware of it.
I may lose a couple pounds today. My appetite has gone away after listening to LRH sing! (You know, it is possible I did hear it once long ago and repressed the memory (engram, or at least a serious lock?) of listening to it.)
@cimvar Heber may well have been belting it out lip synching wise. He always did everything with enthusiasm. He also had an amazing voice btw. And an infectuous laugh. Although people make fun of him, he was like a lot of us KA drinkers at the time. Although it is probably too late for him, it has always been my dream that this dear friend of mine could escape and be deprogrammed before he dies. He is a good soul.
Hi Valerie, Your post made me remember how much I loved Yevonne.She came to ASHO D & F for an SO briefing.She was as great a person even more so, than in her letters.I always wondered what happened to Heber.Now I know.Take Care Ann B Watson.
@ann Heber’s last known location was the hole. I loved Yvonne too, used to go to CC and visit her at dinner. *sigh*
Isn’t Captain Miscavige “Standing Tall” an oxymoron?
Standing Tall As I Can (on an applebox) was the full title
Just curious, Mike, have you ever looked at that video of We Stand Tall and noted where those people are today? Are most of them in the Hole or gone?
So Newton cognited when an apple fell to the earth, and the Captain’s cognition was apples lifted him up from the earth. Brilliant!
https://twitter.com/missaslan/status/584714862669926400
McCarran, there’s a great/horrifying image in this Tweet, taken from the WST vid, that answers your question.
So funny, Tommy J! if he sees this, he’ll be after you. Better hide.
You’ve got it right, Mike. An utterly brilliant comedy tour de force. You do have to see it a few times to capture all the very subtle humour in it. And it’s going to be available on the internet for a *very* long time.
I like the Miscavige character in Neurotology video. He is the only one who has benefitted from Neurotology. He has become a billionaire.
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Vinnie.. At what cost? He sold his soul to the devil. He has no respect. No friends, No conscience. He is being laughed at by the world. He knows that he never measured up to Hubbard in Scientologists eyes. His name will be a punch line for many years to come. He is a disgrace and he knows it. A failure..
He is a loser. An Asshole who may sit on his pile of money… Benefited? He is scorned. He is 4’13” with a Napoleon Complex with a sociopath’s mentality … He is loathed by thousands.
He can have all of his blood money and I will be more than happy to ride in my VW while he passes me in his bullet proof limo.
babybunker, amazingly DM is doing better than El Con did playing the same criminal gig. El Con ended the last 15 years of his life running from the law (because of being a felon), trying to electrocute himself while living in a cramped trailer at the same time wielding control over millions of dollars.
I don’t think he wants any friends. He doesn’t know what one is and has never had a friend before. I am sure he has grasped the concept of controlling people, and when they displease him those same people to bully and betray and torment in the Hole. That is as close as he cares to come near the idea of “friendship” and is maybe what he thinks other people think of when they hear that word. By his own measures, he is doing well. The Church should have run out of money and folded decades ago but he himself has engineered it so that enough money flowed in to keep the Church running all these years. Yes, he might have destroyed the Tech(tm), but that does not matter so long as the money keeps flowing in. Realize that it is he who directs and controls all that IAS money. I am sure he has a lot of it stashed away for his own purposes and a very comfortable retirement. He will still be wearing John Lobb shoes and expensive silk suits long into the future. Custom motorcycles, expensive skeet guns the best sound systems – all the things he loves. Even if the Church folds tomorrow, he will have his own chef, food flown in from all over the world, his own private golf course somewhere and security. Maybe he will have a new Hole built someplace for his own amusement. What we call failure, he regards as success.
Baby bunker, I don’t think any of those things bother him. He’s not all there, he’s insane and in his own little bubble. He eats beautiful food, drinks imported whiskey, has his own hairdresser, etc. Do you think he can really think beyond those things?
Don’t forget, he has power. Maybe not long but he’s incapable of perceiving this.