Tom Cruise’s Publicist Blames the Media for His Declining Popularity

No, really.

First the facts:

According to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll over the weekend … when 1,013 adults were asked their opinion of Cruise, 35% were favorable and 51% unfavorable. Nearly a year ago … the rating was 58% favorable and 31% unfavorable … His popularity with women seems most affected: 56% were favorable in 2005, compared with only 35% now.

Now, the explanation:

Arnold Robinson, his publicist, blames the media for the lower poll results.

“The only thing new in his life is this movie and his baby with a woman he loves,” he says. “The public has been besieged with these images. Whose fault is that? Tom hasn’t done anything.”

Arnold: please put down the vitamins and head immediately to a psychiatrist.

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