The real English translation is: âIâm a stupid thug, and donât realize how hilariously insecure and scared I make myself and my country look.â
As the WSJ may remember, if the government canât watch your shower, the terrorists win. Oh, and 9/11.
In Soviet Russia, Olympics watch you!
Putin is watching you Poop.
that he would release hidden-camera footage of journalists in their hotel bathrooms if they continued to complain about the substandard hotels in Sochi.
OhâŚpleaseâŚplease please.
Just like summer camp!
Russian Olympic official to reporters: stop complaining about hotels or weâll release CCTV footage of you in the bathroom
I love you but that isnât what he said. Nor this: "the hotel bathrooms have surveillance cameras that watch you in the shower. "
He said there was footage of the shower left pointing at the wall. You can interpret that a number of ways, including that there are spy cameras in the bathroom rooms, or you can interpret that in the more logical and more likely way, which is that people checking on the rooms found the showers going and took footage of it. (Assuming there is any actual footage at all.)
There is all sorts of wrong going on with surveillance in Russian and at the Olympics in Sochi, so there is no need to create misleading, sensationalist headlines and copy. There should be more than enough actual horribleness to report on accurately and still be appalling.
OH crap, I donât know which hole in the drywall Iâm supposed to suspect is suspecting me of âsetting a bad example for the kidsâ
Nowhere in the article does anyone say what the headline says they said.
CORYâŚCORY! now would be good time to repost your technique of spotting cameras in your room.
I was going to call bullsht, any place that canât get working toilets, running water, and other basic features done and working, certainly donât have a high-tech, totally undetectable, hidden camera network in the non-working bathrooms. but the article this post links to clearly states numerous times that there are no hidden cameras in the bathrooms, and that the guy was simply accusing westerners of attempted sabotage, both through negative press coverage, and through wasteful water management, ie, leaving their showers on all day while they arenât in their rooms. so it still bullsht, just a different flavor of bullsh*t.
A) theyâre taking video of rooms people occupyâŚas a âcover your ass thingâ That is still an invasion of privacy.
B) Thereâs spy cams in the bathroomsâthat is still an invasion of privacy.
C) Showers 'pointed to the wall" doesnât explain the weirdness or how showers pointed to the wall prevent toilets from being installed and other failures of hotel rooms in the city for an amazing price tag.
I havenât seen many blog pics that could be explained by a shower pointed to the wall and left on. Have youâŚplease post pics and give citation.
is that weirdâŚ? because i have years of myself in the shower on vhs (yeah, itâs still vhs) but i always figured if the pope showed up and asked me what i was doing in the shower iâd have evidence. itâs safer that way, isnât it?
Yes, this. God dammit, Cory, could you please stop just making shit up about people you donât like? Especially when the truth is already plenty damning? All this does is make you look unreliable and hurt your cause.
Is it really sabotage when the shitty buildings are unfinished and unsafe before the reporters get there? Is it wasteful water management when the water âcontains something very dangerousâ?
The Russians have only themselves to accuse if they think sabotage is happening. Let their corrupt government squirm under the worldâs derisive gaze. And saying that the west is corrupt as well is completely irrelevant to the fact that the Russians have fâd up something fierce, and are trying to cover their ass with a series of red herrings. And everyone knows that fish make terrible pants.
Really, your arguing of a bit of semantics. The reports say they have videoâs of peopleâs room, their bath rooms.
OkayâŚweâll give you âthere are no spy cams in the bathâ but apparently there are state agents that go to peopleâs rooms after theyâve left the room for the day if we accept your argument.
I take it youâd be good with a state agency coming into your room and videotaping your hotel room? Because that is what your statement says.
What oversight is doneâŚare the people videotaping these complaints called before plumbers, etc? Maybe even going through the luggage while theyâre there filming your bathroom while your gone for the day?
Are the people that go into peopleâs room and video tape the ones that move the showerhead. I havenât seen any photos or complaints from people that could have been caused by a misdirected showerheadâŚHave you? Post themâŚplease.
Iâm really not. Cory misrepresented what the guy said. And, frankly, it isnât inherently that ominous to have a video of a shower going in an un-occupied hotel room. Hotels all over the world have cleaning staff go into every single room in use every day. Videoing it with a cell phone would be trivial to do, if there even is a video. Could there be hidden spy cameras in the rooms? Possible. But that isnât what the guy said, nor did he threaten to release âCCTV footageâ of people in hotel bathrooms. That is just an outright falsehood on Coryâs part.
The Russians are doing all sorts of bad stuff in Sochi. There is no need to just make stuff up or misrepresent it just to be sensationalistic - thereâs no excuse for that. BB isnât the Daily Mail.
Not long ago Cory was loudly complaining that a Conservative MP âspins, lies, and slanders in Parliament,â saying that there is âno intellectually honest way to say that hiring a freelancer to write about a story they know is the same as paying a source for documentsâ (even though Greenwald is basically the only source for Snowdenâs documents). And yet here we have him saying that the deputy PM âwarnedâ reporters that he would ârelease CCTV footageâ of the reporters in the bathroom, even though the deputy PM only said that footage of someoneâand not necessarily or impliedly reportersâexists, and itâs a stretch to say he even implied that he would release this footage. So I guess this would be Cory spinning, lying, and slandering on a blog (and remember that Cory seems to believe that blog writers should be treated the same as journalists, in which case we seem to have firmly entered Daily Mail territory), whereas those speaking in Parliament are protected from libel claims.
Wouldnât you need a new Gulag to make people watch naked journalists?
PM only said that footage of someoneâand not necessarily or impliedly reportersâexists,
He didnât even necessarily say that.
âWe have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day,
Note the tense. He didnât say âshows people turn ing on the showerâ. What he said more likely means that video taken by maintenance staff of an un-occupied room âshowsâ that someone turned on the shower and left it running, as opposed to video from a hidden camera showing the perpetrator caught in the act, live, on camera. (If any video even exists and wasnât just made up as a lie to save face by the official.)
Iâm not saying the Russians wouldnât stoop so low as to install hidden cameras all over Sochi, but the official didnât say what Cory claimed he said.
Plenty of stuff the Russians do is real, like all of the unfurnished buildings, all of the corruption, all of the publicly stated plans to spy on communications, etc. No need to misrepresent anything.
