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September 19, 2012
Top Headline Comments 9-19-12
Hump day. Up and at 'em!
In an apparent shift in strategy based on Islamists' keen abilities to locate obscure videos on the Internet, President Obama went on Letterman and made an appeal to the Muslim world to not hurt our people.
“The message we have to send to the Muslim world is we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe,” Obama said during a taped interview with CBS’s David Letterman in New York. “We expect their full cooperation because that’s the only way the world works.”
I understand he's also considering making a speech, sending a sternly-worded letter and, if these don't work, pursuing a UN resolution to address the problem.
Matt Yglesias out-beclowned himself yesterday on Twitter. I have to hand it to him - I didn't think this was possible.