Well, Anderson, I do think that he may have helped to cool things down. Rick Davis with CNN has sent a note to several of us pointing out some Tweets from some conservative commentators, both 'National Review' and the 'Weekly Standard,' praising the president's speech, seeing it, in fact, as him telling the left to cool it.
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