Oliver posted the following comment:
I saw the Glenn Beck interview with David Touretzky last night and after the show I looked him up in Google. Why is he going after a religion? Whether we like it or not it is not the point. Touretzky is obsessed with Scientology and he seems to spend a lot of his time, on our tax dollars, to go after your people.
He did not come across very sincere during that interview and frankly he did not seem to be an expert either. He might be a professor but it doesn’t make him an expert on anything he says.
He is an expert in rat research i.e. he does experiments with rats and studies their behavior and reactions.
Touretzky doesn’t appear to be an expert on any religion, so why present such a fake? I really like Beck’s show but when I see such people it makes me want to switch channels. Several of my friends who were watching it with me shared my feelings.
Nothing personal as I like the Glenn Beck show and his style, but he should spare us such nut cases on his show. They have nothing to teach us really. Like Beck I am not a fan of Scientology but I don’t have anything against them either and I grew up with a firm belief that what makes this country such a great nation is the First Amendment. Though Touretzky has his right to say what he thinks he should not come on CNN using his professorial attitude to tell us about something he knows nothing about. He never told us what his field of expertise really is, and on that count he was misleading the American public.
Oliver