RNC 2016: Day 3 - Third Eye Blind troll the convention

You may not have heard much from the band Third Eye Blind since their biggest hit song "Semi-Charmed Life" back in 1997. They're back in the news today though and trending on social media thanks to what people are calling a major "troll" of the Republican Convention.

The band accepted an invite to play at a charity event being held near the RNC on Tuesday night only to show up and refuse to play any of the memorable older material for the largely Republican audience, instead taking on the party's views on science and making statements in support of gay rights.

"Raise your hand if you believe in science," the band's frontman Stephan Jenkins said at one point, according to the New York Daily News.

Later, when someone Tweeted at the band that they had never been "more disappointed", the band replied: "good".

Jenkins explained his opposition to the modern GOP in an opinion piece in 2012, saying the party was "dedicated to exclusion" and was on the wrong side of a range of issues, including civil rights, climate change, and evolution.

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From Fairfax Media chief correspondent Paul McGeough in Cleveland.

A very strange night in Cleveland. The theme was supposed to be 'make America work again…"

But so far all we've had on the jobs front, is eight speakers who have wandered in from the previous day's schedule, when the theme was 'make America safe again.'

The dominant talking point tonight has been security and the key target has been Clinton. Regarding jobs, all we have heard is from a strange little man from New York, named Andy Wist, who employs 140 people – not exactly inspiring.

Surely the next speaker would address jobs – nope, that was Chris Cox, an executive with the National Rifle Association, whose target was Hillary Clinton and whose talking point is personal and family security – as in the right of Americans to go armed.

Only a couple of lines being quoted so far but it could be a pattern with the Trump gang.

A nifty 360 view of the convention floor.

...to continue the barrage against Hillary Clinton.

Clinton's camp wastes no time in responding to the brain surgeon former Republican candidate.