the flag is a symbolic victory but it s not going to bring back a single life. we need to get the guns. i think that will happen . why do you think he didn t order immediately the flag to be lowered. it s a head scratcher. scratcher but you combine this to his response in the shooting when he said it is a heartbreaking circumstance and then you compare it to his reaction to the death of the thief michael brown who attacked a cop and the rainbow colors and other incidents that he reacted passionately to. the pr here is terrible. whoever is advising him right now anyway the flags are down. here is the big story of the night. is everybody ready for it? at the free bird community high school in illinois their nickname for sports teams is the midgets. no. you can t do that any longer. roll the tape.
it s a guy coming into our private lives with his strangeness. it s an invasion of our privacy, if you will. we keep hearing about a guy as you said or joan said, it s exhibitionism to the point where he s streaking digitally down the street to us. you know? why do we want to know this? things we can not unsee. can t unsee the guy. i don t want to know all this about weiner. your thoughts, steve. this is maybe below your pay grade. it s embarrassing to us all. this guy s called a press conference on national television in a minute. he s going to be the big story of the night, not trayvon martin, not the princess having a baby, but this stuff. well, you know, two things. first of all, there are few politicians i ve seen, i ve written about who is as overtly ambitious as anthony weiner. what does he want out of life? he wants to be mayor of new york. other ambitions. ed koch is sort of his personal political hero.
hijacked by the radical left and there are no more conservatives democrat politicians, 1960 s retreads or worse, that s how he gets away with it. the problem for me though when you listen to him, on focusing jobs, he s destroying jobs. focusing on debt, ballooning the debt. everything he focuses on he destroys, you ve got to hope he doesn t focus on you. sean: i hope so. i know the big story of the night was the republican response, marco rubio and we we ll get into this later on the program as it unfolds, a big deal drudge report watergate 2013. it s interesting, i ve given speeches, i ve taken a sip of water. right here, my springs right here and take drinks while i m on the air, but that s their focus because i think the substance was so good. now, let s look at barack obama, this was put out by the ap, also on the drudge report. let s see, oh, obama taking a
and there are no more conservatives democrat politicians, 1960 s retreads or worse, that s how he gets away with it. the problem for me though when you listen to him, on focusing jobs, he s destroying jobs. focusing on debt, ballooning the debt. everything he focuses on he destroys, you ve got to hope he doesn t focus on you. sean: i hope so. i know the big story of the night was the republican response, marco rubio and we we ll get into this later on the program as it unfolds, a big deal drudge report watergate 2013. it s interesting, i ve given speeches, i ve taken a sip of water. right here, my springs right here and take drinks while i m on the air, but that s their focus because i think the substance was so good. now, let s look at barack obama, this was put out by the ap, also on the drudge report. let s see, oh, obama taking a
sununu, it s about reaching somebody else. i think when speaker boehner using the time of language he does, and some of the other language you heard tonight, i think it s offputting for americans that want to here what mitt romney wants to do. robert gibbs, obama campaign senior divorce, former woes press secretary giving advice that they definitely will not take, even if it s good advice, because it s coming from you. i tried. thank you for joining us. nice to see you. thanks. the latest on the other big story of the night, the just as big story, and that s hurricane isaac. we ll talk live with rick santorum, yes. you are watching msnbc s live coverage of the republican convention.