# G W Bush on the Fed's Lowering if Interest Rate **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446 "2001-01-04T19:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/1 "2001-01-04T19:51:11Z")
I am trying to find a transcript or a sound file of George W Bush giving a statement to the press regarding the 1/2 point lowering of the interest rate. I heard it in passing on someone’s radio yesterday and want to see / hear it again. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/2 "2001-01-04T20:12:10Z")
Here’s a [link](http://www.msnbc.com/news/511101.asp)to page with a link to a video clip of Bush’s response. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/3 "2001-01-04T22:36:47Z")
Yep! “Stalespin”! I thought so! ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/4 "2001-01-04T22:56:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JamesCarroll \* > \*\*Here’s a [link](http://www.msnbc.com/news/511101.asp)to page with a link to a video clip of Bush’s response. \*\* Oh my god…What kind of downers is he on?..We are so screwed. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/5 "2001-01-04T23:23:33Z")
The unfortunate thing about that clip is that they didn’t include the part where Yakko, Wacko and Dot ask if they can jump on Larry Linsday’s belly. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/6 "2001-01-04T23:45:16Z")
That video clip’s as good a justification as any for why press conferences should not be done while seated. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/7 "2001-01-05T02:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smackfu \* > \*\*That video clip’s as good a justification as any for why press conferences should not be done while seated. \*\* or while under the influence ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/8 "2001-01-05T03:07:16Z")
bdgr, Have you forgotten the Halcion days of his dads administration ? That chundering bit with the japanese prime minister was choice; perhaps the son has learned about benzodiazapenes from the old man ? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/9 "2001-01-05T03:39:15Z")
This is obviously someone’s idea of a prank. That cannot be our President(in two weeks). Can someone tell me how to doctor a video link to make it do that? ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/10 "2001-01-05T17:01:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\*This is obviously someone’s idea of a prank. > > That cannot be our President(in two weeks). > > Can someone tell me how to doctor a video link to make it do that? > > \*\* Ok. Step by Step 1-Get a total freaking moron drunking frat boy. 2-Convince him to run for president. 3-Get the supreme court to appoint him president 4-put him front of a camera, with a poorly rehearsed script about something he doens’t even begin to understand. ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/11 "2001-01-05T19:05:12Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by bdgr:_ > **What kind of downers is he on?..** He must’ve gotten them Lieberman. Gawd, could you imagine 4 years of listening to that poster child for the “Droopy the Dog Fan Club”? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-w-bush-on-the-feds-lowering-if-interest-rate/48446/12 "2001-01-05T23:49:04Z")
Since the OP is asked and answered and the thread has degenerated into _yet another_ boring, silly political piece of crap, I’m closing it.