He could've said exactly that to the ambassadors. Refusing to meet ambassadors is something very serious in diplomacy.

That the cartoons offended Muslims in September and October is not in dispute.

No, the point was that already in October, things escalated enough that representatives of 11 foreign governments were into the issue, while you claimed that only the Saudi state was into it and that from January.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}