The market dropped while Bush was speaking

[Wetzelbill]

lol Fitting.

[Pab Sungenis]

1. It's been happening for years.

DU calls it the Piehole effect. Every time he talks about the economy, whiz-bang, down it goes.

[SpiralHawk]

7. "Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[DemoTex]

8. Is that a picture of his Poodle behind him? Blair?

:rofl:

[DemoTex]

2. Almost 30 points. Amazing validation of the "Pie-Hole" Theory.

As soon as he shut his pie-hole, the ticker started back in the positive direction.

[meegbear]

3. As an "old timer" on this forum ...

I remember when he spoke, people would post market quotes and we'd joke about how him speaking is driving it down.

Looks like the joke's on us.

[Fuzz]

4. I tivo'd back and you're right!

30 pts!!!! lmao

[Spritz57]

5. If I were a Republican. . .

If I were a Republican, and the McCain/Palin ticket represented the other party, I might point out that since their VP candidate did her first nationally televised interview, the stock market has plunged 800+ points. If I were a Republican that is. . .

[mmonk]

6. Yeah. It's why I didn't want him to speak.

[radfringe]

9. PIEHOLE tracking

10:12am DOW: 10,784.06
10:18am DOW: 10,722.67

drop of 61.39

[gateley]

10. That's funny! And if I weren't in the corner sobbing... nt

[zbdent]

11. that would be interesting to watch ... esp. like a Bloomberg or money network channel ...

stock crawl, either on the side or the bottom of the screen ...

and the Dow falling as Bush goes on and on ...

Someone should do a capture of that video and put it on Youtube.

Similar to the old Buck Henry bit where he was talking about the new, immediate response ratings technology ... as viewers lose interest, the screen gets smaller ... as he explained the technology, the screen got smaller ... mentioned "sex", and the screen went back to full screen ...