RED EYE - AUGUST 2, 2013 FULL EPISODE

Greg welcomes guests Remi Spencer, Joe Devito and Gavin's dad, Jimmy McInnes.

A Revealing Hour in Harlem With...Anthony Weiner?

It was just a few minutes into Anthony Weiner's door-to-door canvass of a Harlem public housing complex Thursday night, and the New York City mayoral candidate was already agitated.

As he scanned his staff-prepared list of apartment numbers and corresponding residents' names, the candidate shook his head in disapproval.

"This is no good, the way you have this organized," he said to one of two young, female aides who were accompanying him. "This is N.G. -- not great."

A few minutes later, Weiner remained fixated on the quality of his staff's advance work, voicing his displeasure in full earshot of the large media contingent in tow.

"Boy, oh boy," he said as another young woman from his campaign team stood beside him, shifting through her own notes in uncomfortable silence. “This is not as organized as I would've liked."

Is this curtains for our fearless digital flasher?  Allahpundit has speculated that Weiner's reason for staying in the race was clear the decks for a more serious run at the mayoralty in 2017.  But now it seems even that forlorn hope is fading fast.

What you're seeing here, I think, is this guy grappling with the reality that he's not going to be viable in 2017 either. He was willing to lose this time around on the theory that it would help him long-term; even if more sexting stuff came out and sank him, it'd be old news by the time he made his "real" run for mayor in four years. But that blew up on him. The fact that he was sexting even after leaving Congress combined with the Sydney Leathers circus in the media has turned him into a fatally flawed, fatally ridiculous figure. He'd have been better off skipping a run this time, spending the next four or eight years following John Profumo's example and working hard at charity, then trying to run for office again. Dredging up old dirty laundry about sexting at that point would seem nasty, an attempt to impugn a changed man. As it is, the fact that his ambition drove him to run before he'd made any credible try at rehabilitation just made him look sleazier, a careerist pol whose ambition wouldn't tolerate even the pretense of remorse. I doubt he'll ever shake that rep now, and I think he doubts it too. Why not have a lark with the media before they go away forever?