I think he gave a great big-picture outline. A sober one, acknowledging, once again, the ugliness we’ve seen and cautioning to expect more. And if you were someone watching who hadn’t previously heard the whole general plan in one sitting, you got that. But as far as chilling the panic: I don’t know. From my informal scan of panicked conservatives today, some of them promised me they weren’t going to watch. If they watched, I can’t imagine they were too satisfied by the end.