Thank God Stephen Colbert is coming up in the world...

because Janeane Garofalo apparently can't go down on Tom Cruise and Scientology fast enough.

The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project...Let Go, Let Xenu.

Frankly, the fun of Janeane wore off for me awhile ago. There are much more astute and interesting left-wing commentators. However, when a noted pundit makes such an abrupt and unexpected 180, it always gives one pause.

Don't get me wrong. It's a very noble and necessary thing, to develop programs to help firemen and rescue workers who have been ill since 9/11. However, the NYRWDP is sort of like having Fred Phelps run an AIDS prevention program. Or, rather, asking Jack Abramoff to oversee a commission on lobby reform.

NYRWPD is little more than a front for Scientology to get government money for proselytization. There's a nice little "follow the links" article at Cult News that traces the connections. If you need any more proof, that is, other than a gushing Leah Remini, "Actress" and Scientology drone, who was basically given an open pulpit on Garofalo's show, "Majority Report".

So, wtf, Janeane? Not only are you endorsing an organization with clear ties to one of the most encompassing religious hoaxes of our times, but you are also throwing your valued rational thinking out the window by complementing a medical program that experts say has absolutely no scientific proof of success and may in fact be harmful. Maybe we can just chalk this one up to the madness that possessed New York upon the visit of Scientology scion, Tom Cruise. Maybe you'll get back to your usual critical thinking and examination of issues rather than turning your program into an infomercial for the people fighting against the spirits of dead space aliens.

Or maybe you've finally cracked under the weight of your own cynicism and we'll be reading in The Times about how you had to be pulled from your apartment, your hair a badly colored blonde, screaming about how Ann Coulter is sex on a stick and Rush Limbaugh was framed.