Tom Cruise in Chicago May5th for Oprah Interview.

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Whether or not this has been taped, is in the can, or is still in progress...

For me and my demographic, the big opportunity in this is that it is an excuse to discuss the subject publicly and with anyone and everyone, without looking like we're forcing an obscure issue.

(i.e. "Hey, did you hear Tom Cruise is going back on Oprah... I just saw an interview with one of those Scientology's leaders' nieces on Nightline last week! OMG -- that cult is freaky. I wonder if Tom really knows what's going on behind the scenes, or if Oprah knows. She'd hate to be promoting something that does such awful things to kids. You should check it out. They gave a link to some website. Uh.... exscientologykids I think it was."

Oprah is sufficiently followed that her shows, particularly high profile ones, are talked about in coffee houses, at book clubs, and over watercoolers all over the United States.

This is your opening to introduce the subject to lots of people, and you will want to go veeerrry easy on the details, but find at least one hook, something to drive someone to look online, and give one really good non-tinfoilhatted reference. For this particular bunch, I HIGHLY SUGGEST EXSCIENTOLOGYKIDS.ORG -- because moms are the core audience.

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Oprah.com Community: Why the Tom Cruise plug? ...

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Less views than some of the other topics about Cruise, but far more of them are from non-Anonymous.

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Wow... Vapid Oprah-bots!!! :frustration: :tinfoil::whistle:

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Lots of the people seem to be upset about Oprah dropping Tom's name in the middle of the last online class. It was abrupt and weird. I wonder if all the questions flowing in about scientology threw her off.

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Worst part about it being pretaped is Oprah probably didn't ask Tom how he feels about having all that nice blue asbestos in his lungs.

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it's gotta be fluff...with tom trying to revive his doomed career...Cruise ship of Doom....

in so many ways

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I LOL'd so hard when Oprah couldn't remember that she hosted the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Tom Cruise.

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Damn, are they asking if you ever gave robots a bad name?

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All I know is that we need Jenna.

Jenna could get through to Oprah.

And before anyone bashes Oprah, we still don't know for sure she DIDN'T call him to task.

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Don't know if anyone has already posted this information.....I just read in the Chicago Tribune that Tom Cruise was at Oprah's studio in Chicago today taping the show that will aire 5/5.

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Oops, not the Chicago Tribune but Free Services for PR :: News :: Press Releases. Link follows:

Tom Cruise celebrates 25-year career with appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"

already taped? Oh, that's ok...

Chanology Chicago will be outside Harpo studios on Monday May 5, 2008 to protest the airing of the second Tom Cruise episode because we must. We cannot stand for the glorification of a set of ideas which facilitate and even endorse the destruction of families and abuse of children. With fame comes power. With that power comes responsibility. Those in power have an even greater responsibility to defend those who cannot help themselves.
Because in this case, those in power refuse to, We will stand and remind the world of what lies beneath the glamours. We will speak for those who no longer have a voice of their own and for those who are yet to come.

Expect Us.

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lookie what I found

YouTube - OPRAH's Channel

Oprah on youtube. When the Tom stuff goes up...ya know what to do.

Low scores and links to xenu.net and info about scilons

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This is in the can, it was taped on Thursday.

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yes but people are still going to protest day of airing and when she airs parts of the episode on youtube we can still comment etc

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A group of Anons protesting outside Harpo Studio will definitely not go un-noticed as it has not happened before.

Maybe someone inside will get curious to tell Oprah what the heck it is all about. Maybe that person will come out to chat and be impressed with classy Chicago Anons and their fliers and social conscience? Then maybe Oprah will invite Anonymous on its own show to tell the world what Chanology is all about.

Hey part or all of that could happen...
If there is no protest nothing can happen.
Have fun guys!
You will be epic win.

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Stay the course folks. Don't be discourage about May 1st being the actual recording, we couldn't have known, point is we get our name out to the people who need to hear it

For future reference if we know scis are going to be on Oprah in might be a good idea to get some revolving protests round the clock, up to a week up until the air date

GODSPEED you beautiful deep dish maggots

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That last part is true, but for the first? We should have.

No talk show that airs during the afternoon hours is going to tape THE SAME DAY (the exception being the ones that air live, like Regis' show). It never made sense to think so. But the excitement of the idea dulled our collective brains, I think.

Still, the important thing is getting the press (and maybe Oprah) to notice. Tom himself was always a lost cause, and even on the right day you never would have seen his face anyway, I'd wager. He would have arrived in an unmarked car with dark windows and you never would have known for sure it was him. And wherever you could protest wouldn't have been anywhere near the unloading area.

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Personally, I never expected the episode to air the same day. I imagined it would be later in the week. I also never expected to see him. I don't think he would really want to be that close to a self declared SP. Regardless, we'll be there.

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Noticed this on Oprah's site:
Reply 99. Re: Exclusive from His Telluride Home: The Tom Cruise Interview May 2, 2008 1:48 AM

Oh, and one more thing. That guy who has been breaking boards outside Oprah's studio for over a week, trying to get her help in rasing awareness for Cystic Fibrosis... well Oprah's security ran him off the other day because he didn't have the proper $100 permit. I think Oprah needs to get her priorities in order.

Permit needed? Security ran him off? WTF?

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Anonabliss, was that post in response to someone talking about our protest on the oprah board? Hmmm first I've heard about a permit being issued or a fee.... Going to have to call city hall again

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Not your protest. There's this guy trying to get Oprah to do a show on cystic fibrosis. It was about him. Nothing to do with anonymous. I just saw that they ran him off. Dont know if the poster even knows what he's talking about, but I thought I'd mention it just in case something was overlooked.

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Hmm well, unless the sidewalk in front of them is private property I don't think they have the authority to do that. They probably just waved some vague legal cock and that was that.

DON'T bow into pressure unless a cop tells you

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Chicago anons- DONT fuck this up, this is a huge opportunity. Nobody's getting into the studio, it just wont happen. Picket outside the org, pull as many numbers as you fucking can. Protesting outside of oprah WILL get you news coverage. Call the ACLU and make sure they have a lawyer sent to the picket, so that the cops can't shoo you away. Oh man please don't fuck this up.

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shame her studio isnt on the west coast. You guys could've told us how the show goes before we went to protest it.

we can only hope that Tom puts his foot in his mouth, and a bullet in his foot, cuz clearly Oprah is gonna, let's face it, suck his cock

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Watch ET tonight and I am sure they will have at least a small blurb about it. All week they have talked about the interview from the Telluride ranch, so I'm sure they will have something about the in studio one, too. Of course, that one is all about people kissing Tom's ass cause he was so great dancing in his tighty whiteys 25 years ago.

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Jenna Jameson? lol

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TC wouldn't have agreed to two hours with Oprah if he wasn't sure she'd at least try to save his career. (Would Davey have let him?) It is going to be damage control start to finish and I hope everyone braces for it. Keep some Pepto handy because it's gonna make us all sick.

Oprah claims to be good friends with TC, Travolta, Alley (who she hired to work for her studio) and this is all about throwing TC a lifeline.

My point? Brace for a two hour long lovefest (over 2 days) and lots of (unwarranted) media attention over it. Hopefully the best thing they'll have to say was that he almost seemed normal.

I hope like hell I'm wrong but my gut tells me I'm not

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You know that the audience will be filled with screaming women. Most of us know that the audience is prompted to applaud, laugh, or scream when someone with the show holds up a sign instructing the audience to do so. Oprah's audience tends to go overboard when it comes to this. The bad part about this is it will appear that all the screaming women are doing it because it's Tom Cruise. I'm not going to watch because of the scientology connection. I don't know if I could "stomach" watching all the screaming anywayey.....it's so friggin' phoney

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My point? Brace for a two hour long lovefest (over 2 days) and lots of (unwarranted) media attention over it. Hopefully the best thing they'll have to say was that he almost seemed normal.

I hope like hell I'm wrong but my gut tells me I'm not[/QUOTE]

My gut tells me the same. Wouldn't it be GREAT to be wrong about this? Not much of a chance though...if the end result wasn't what Tom wanted, he never would have agreed to do it in the first place. Basically, the interview was scripted beforehand to make Tom and his COS buddies happy.

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Watching it now, and so far all I have to say is

liar liar pants on fire.

He's denying everything he said. "I didn't mean it". Yeah, uhuh.

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Anyone have a YT link yet

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Wait, I don't give a fuck. NVMD

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Didn't mean what exactly?

That all you need is vitamins? That psychotropic drugs are bad for you? WHAT?!!

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Yeah, Tom is definitely doing damage control.. Trying to come across as humble and just this warm person who has a little lovely family. He believes in GOD, he says.. That in Scientology you don't have to believe what he believes. That he believes that families and parents should make choices about drugs and their lives.
That the "infamous" Tom Cruise clip was taken out of context. BTW, Oprah asks her "hard" questions and then guides him into the "get out of jail free" or good PR answer.

Tom is looking old and very tired. Kate is a stick figure, she looks SO thin, like she needs a sandwich.

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He's saying he didn't mean to come across so harsh to matt lauer. Now he says its everybody's choice as whether they want to use drugs or not. He says he doesn't personally believe in them, but doesn't deny others right to use them. He says he felt "pressed" on the interview. ??? Dont get that one.

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Is there any oldguard in Chicago?

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Pressed? Matt gave him so many opportunities to say just that.

Pressed my ass!

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Hope somebody can copy for us workfags.

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Maybe instead of pressed, he meant to say posessed. He's trying to make it all sound like a huge misunderstanding. Regarding the sci video, all he says is that it was all taken out of context. Thats about all the "hard hitting" stuff so far. The rest is crap, just how he loves Katie, loves her family, love love love. Loves his kids, tries to be a good father, blah blah blah. Basically damage control. He's doing a good job, too. Almost got me to believe he's beome a real human being.....but I cant....because I know.

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So, basically, he's ACTING at being the old Tom Cruise?