Is it a fake story that Maria Sharapova talked about the ugly carpet at the hotel?

MSNBC showed the carpet bit. It did happen.

The context was that she was talking about the press thinking what she was going to talk about was her retirement. Then she said something like “If I was going to retire I wouldn’t announce it in a place with such ugly carpet.” (paraphrasing there)

But even so, she addressing the fact that is being accused of doping. Why would the quality of the carpet occur to her right at that time? How does that make sense?

Also what someone considers ugly or beautiful is all subjective anyway, whether it’s the the carpet the curtain the paitings, ...

Is she having a problem with the hotel or something?

@flo: She was making joking small talk, as per @johnpowell‘s post.

@jca There’s small talk, and then there is changing the subject , small talk.

@flo: It was her press conference and she used that joke to start the conference.

@jca Those are 2 facts that we already knew, not explanation.

@flo If you didn’t want answers, then don’t ask. @jca told you what she thought.

That’s why all media has editors. The small talk at the start isn’t really anything to do with the story so they cut it out to make the segment shorter while keeping in the important info

@Lightlyseared It does have everything to do with the story. If someone says to someone she said….the quote unquote joke, and according to the article (and the video) says it doesn’t it is misleading. There is no indication that they edited something out.
Also it’s not a joke she is just speaking badly about the hotel. A joke would be if she said something self deprecating.

It’s not possible she made a joke about something other than herself, @flo?

@jca A joke would be if she said something self deprecating, for example. Editing to add to my last post.
The ugly carpet is not a joke. It’s considered a joke, only because it’s a celebrity who said that. I can see anyone joking around (not insulting any place anyone) if the press conference was right after a win let’s say. You don’t joke around on the wintness stand with the prosecuter just when he/she is preparing to ask you some tough questions.

@flo: This was Maria’s press conference. It’s a bit different than being interrogated on the witness stand.

You and I obviously are not seeing eye to eye on this one. We’ll have to agree to disagree. We’ve rehashed it enough and others have said they agree with me.

@jca “It’s a bit different than being interrogated on the witness stand.”
You mean less serious? It is less serious of course. It’s not different.

@flo: I was going to explain how a press conference is different from being in court, being interrogated, but then I remembered I asked you that we just agree to disagree, so I’m going to drop it. If you would like to continue the debate, it won’t be with me.

@jca Okay. You’re gone, I guess but if you bump into this thread in the future, feel free to explain “how”, re.
__“I was going_ to explain how a press conference is different from being in court, being interrogated,“_

@flo: I am not gone but I’m not invested in debating it any longer.

How is a press conference different from being interrogated in court? A press conference is something the person brings on, has the option of answering what they want to answer, can be as long or as short as the person wants it to be, can be joking if they want to joke (as Maria S. did make the joke). Court, when someone is subpoenaed to testify, it’s the opposite of the above.

@jca So, catching the cold and ending up with inoperable cancer, opposite? Not opposite.

If anyone says you @jca are a…(pick an insult) then they must be joking, right?

OMG is all I can say at this point.