Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Appear in Public to Combat Reports

[lovely bones]

Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Appear in Public to Combat Reports By Lynda Johnson

It seems as if the best way for Katie Holmes to get out and appear in public with fiancé Tom Cruise is for reports to emerge that details the couple are having trouble of some sort. The latest is that Katie and Tom had a blow up, and she flew home to see her folks.
Katie hits the ball field

If she did - she's back in California and again at a sporting event. The couple even takes the time to pose for a team picture with Tom and Nicole Kidman's adopted son Conor.


Just Jared gives this report and has plenty of pictures:

Tom Cruise, 43, took fiancée Katie Holmes, 27, to another one of his son Conor's baseball games yesterday afternoon. Earlier this month, Tom thanked the "polite" paparazzi for their continued courtesy throughout his kids' baseball and soccer games.

Tom remarked, "A lot of times I have a press corps that I go to the game with -- not voluntarily -- but they're actually very polite. They get the photos and then watch the game and they actually start following the games.

As I'm going through the paparazzi, (I hear) 'Hey, Connor pitched great today.'"

Nice move by Cruise, perhaps he can begin to turn this whole "poor image" thing around.

Pictures of the event are here at Just Jared

--Lynda Johnson

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[nana55]

Yeah, I don't think. There will be rumors until we see the baby. If there is one.

[Lakesweetjane]

Does Tom Cruise thinks he is scientology's equivaliant to a pope? He speaks as if its the most profound wisdom ever, as if we should melt at his every word. I'm sink of him constantly talking, we don;t need to hear every thought he has!
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I was born to rock, that's just what I do!

[CherryDarling]

My, they sure appear in public a LOT. Poor Suri (if she exists) has been captured by $cientology minder nannies...why isn't she with Katie??

I still say they'll release pics of Suri shortly around the birth of baby Brangelina. Tom Terrific can't stand to be out of the limelight.

[Bellatheball]

This is all so strange. I don't know a single new mom who was willing to leave her kid with a sitter so she could go watch a game. I'm asking a question with no quick answer but what is wrong with these people???

[misswang]

Originally Posted by Bellatheball

This is all so strange. I don't know a single new mom who was willing to leave her kid with a sitter so she could go watch a game. I'm asking a question with no quick answer but what is wrong with these people???

Will we ever know?

[sprynkles]

Shrimpy freak man.

[LynnieD]

NOTHING they EVER do will combat rumors!! NOTHING!

[enctpc]

Originally Posted by LynnieD

NOTHING they EVER do will combat rumors!! NOTHING!

You said it LynnieD....

[jtoland]

If anything, this latest outing raises more questions than answers any.

[KD]

They are being seen together? Well, I for one am TOTALLY convinced!

[Cate]

Originally Posted by Bellatheball

This is all so strange. I don't know a single new mom who was willing to leave her kid with a sitter so she could go watch a game. I'm asking a question with no quick answer but what is wrong with these people???

Well, I don't have an answer to your question , but I agree on leaving the baby. My youngest is 1 month older than the alleged Suri, and I have left her twice in two months. Once to run to the drug store for 15 minutes by myself and the other time to go to a school committee meeting (no kids). Other than that, she goes everywhere I do until I go back to work.

[nana55]

My sister who had 6 kids , would take her babies everywhere, including ballgames. Why don't Tom & kate, there is no baby, that is why not. Adoption agencies don't usually give them to you right off the bat. They will have to wait until they are legally able to get their baby and then show it off. I guesstimate another couple of weeks.

[ultrafabviolet]

Originally Posted by Mushy

Tom remarked, "A lot of times I have a press corps that I go to the game with -- not voluntarily -- but they're actually very polite. They get the photos and then watch the game and they actually start following the games. As I'm going through the paparazzi, (I hear) 'Hey, Connor pitched great today.'"

Everything is always so gung ho-rah rah-super duper-hunky dorey with him. It makes me want to put him in one of Jigsaw's torture chambers.

Ain' it true! Ain't it oh-so true!



I am with you on this one. I am just old enough to have lived just long enough to have seen just enough shining examples (the Cheshire shrimp being foremost among them) of those who have to incessantly sing their own praises because no one else will.

Tom's mirth-filled perfect world is about as real as that as yet unseen alleged spawn his intergalactic goofusmate is alleged to have spewed forth.

"The truth speaks for itself; the truth stands on its own." When/if your ]sic] god/ideal/story/etc. are so weak, so lame, that it/they need you to defend them . . . well, damn, Tommy, you need a better if not different god/ideal/story/etc.

It is glaringly obvious that Tiny Tom feels a deep-seated need to be "his own personal Goebbels." Substitute t-dwarf's name for P.J. Gerbil's, Old Man Hubbard's name for 'Dolphie's name, and the truth about Tom becomes pelucidly clear. Give all due attention to the "Princips of Prop" section.

JOSEPH GOEBBELS



1897 -1945

German Nazi Party member Joseph Goebbels became Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister in 1933, which gave him power over all German radio, press, cinema, and theater.

In 1925 Goebbels met the party leader Adolf Hitler. In 1926 he was made Gauleiter, or party leader, for the region of Berlin, and in 1927 he founded and became editor of the official National Socialist periodical Der Angriff (The Attack). He was elected to the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1928. By exploiting mob emotions and by employing all modern methods of propaganda Goebbels helped Hitler into power.

His work as a propagandist materially aided Hitler's rise to power in 1933. When Hitler seized power in 1933, Goebbels was appointed Reichsminister for propaganda and national enlightenment. From then until his death, Goebbels used all media of education and communications to further Nazi propagandistic aims, instilling in the Germans the concept of their leader as a veritable god and of their destiny as the rulers of the world. In 1938 he became a member of the Hitler cabinet council. Late in World War II, in 1944, Hitler placed him in charge of total mobilization.

As Reichsminister for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, Goebbels was given complete control over radio, press, cinema, and theater; later he also regimented all German culture. Goebbels placed his undeniable intelligence and his brilliant insight into mass psychology entirely at the service of his party. His most virulent propaganda was against the Jews. As a hypnotic orator he was second only to Hitler, and in his staging of mass meetings and parades he was unsurpassed. Utterly cynical, he seems to have believed only in the self-justification of power. He remained loyal to Hitler until the end. On May 1, 1945, as Soviet troops were storming Berlin, Goebbels committed suicide.

Listed below are the principles purported to summarize what made Goebbels tick or fail to tick. They may be thought of as his intellectual legacy. Whether the legacy has been reliably deduced is a methodological question. Whether it is valid is a psychological matter. Whether or when parts of it should be utilized in a democratic society are profound and disturbing problems of a political and ethical nature.

GOEBBELS' PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
Based upon Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob, published in Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.

b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.

c. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences

3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence

b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions

c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself

d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity

5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.

11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.

b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment

c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses

b. They must be capable of being easily learned

c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations

d. They must be boomerang-proof

15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat

b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves

17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated

b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective

18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

If the above is not the template for the scion-tology credo a la Tom L. (as in Loose) Screws, then I dunno what is.


The persecution rests.

Vi

[lovely bones]

^^^ Vi, that's pretty damn scary!

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

OK, like Oprah's couch?

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.

The post-partum depression med/treatment v. "vitamins" debate with Brooke Shields?

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

Oprah?

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.

"TomKat?"



Uggh. The list goes on.