ANNALS OF PREJUDICE: Nancy Pelosi thinks she has white men figured out.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows why white men prefer GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. Surprisingly, she didn’t blame sexism, but her attempts to speak for white men could be viewed as, well, sexist.

“So many times, white — non-college-educated — white males have voted Republican,” Pelosi told PBS. “They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s — God being the woman’s right to choose.”

First, she starts off by implying these men are stupid because they didn’t go to college. That right there might be a reason many working-class men don’t support the Democratic Party. But I’m not a white man, so I can only speculate as to their reasoning.

Second, she insists these men care more about social issues than economic issues. Many people vote Republican because they recognize that free stuff from the government isn’t free, and that raising taxes on the rich can’t pay for it all. So they are voting in their own economic interests. There’s also a point in here about how people in low-income areas keep voting to keep the Democratic Party in power even though their lives don’t improve. It’s also possible that many white men don’t like Clinton because of her mishandling of classified information and promises to continue President Obama’s legacy, which has seen record numbers of people leave the workforce.

Let’s flip the script and think of how it would look if a white male politician gave an interview and suggested women prefer Hillary because of “abortion, contraceptives and the belief that women are paid less than men for equal work.” There would be outrage from certain feminist circles. Shouts of “no uterus, no opinion!” would echo.

Perhaps men should start responding with “no penis, no opinion!” when women try to speak for them.

Related: Hillary Ad Text: ‘Girls Rule, Boys Drool.’

No, sadly, that’s not a joke or parody. “The Clinton campaign did not respond to an inquiry about the use in the ad of the phrase ‘boys drool’ or how little boys might be affected by this.”

How will little boys fare, when we have a President who hates them?

TOM BROKAW OFFERS GAUZY PORTRAIT OF HILLARY’S ‘LONG JOURNEY’ WITH ‘SOUL MATE’ BILL.

As the Daily Mail noted last year, “Hillary marriage ‘is a total fake’: Secret Service expert claims Clintons have ‘business relationship’ for benefit of her presidential campaign.”

Does anyone believe the media-generated fiction that the Clintons are a happy stable couple? Does Brokaw?

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF SOUL-CRUSHING POVERTY? A few blocks from the DNC, tales from the city with the highest poverty rate among major U.S. cities.

Reminder: Philadelphia’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1952.

HE DOES THAT A LOT: Trump: Obama talked about a ‘world that doesn’t exist.’

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, tweeted that almost three-quarters of the population think “our country is going in the wrong direction.”

President Obama spoke last night about a world that doesn’t exist. 70% of the people think our country is going in the wrong direction. #DNC
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2016

He also mocked the president by retweeting a link to a video showing that Obama referred to himself 119 times during Wednesday night’s speech.

Obama Refers to Himself 119 Times During Hillary Nominating Speech… https://t.co/TyJI2DuqEk
— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) July 28, 2016

During his speech, Obama criticized Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” by saying that “America is already great” and accusing Trump of having a “deeply pessimistic vision” of the country.

“I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump,” Obama said.

“Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order. We don’t look to be ruled,” he added.

Funny, Obama ran as a self-declared savior in 2008. To be fair, that did turn out pretty disastrously.

And if America was already great, why was Obama promising to “fundamentally transform” it?

WELL, AFTER MILQUETOASTS LIKE McCAIN AND ROMNEY, THAT WOULD MAKE FOR A PLEASANT CHANGE: Aggressive Trump threatens to ‘HIT’ DNC speakers ‘so hard’ over speeches that criticized billionaire GOP nominee.

POWER LINE: DEMS END ON A MEDIOCRE NOTE, BUT PROBABLY HELPED THEMSELVES THIS WEEK.

REMINDER TO THE POLITICAL AND PUNDIT CLASSES: You Smeared and Sneered at Polite People. Now You’re Shocked at What You’re Getting Instead.

BYRON YORK: Byron York: Has Obama’s act worn thin? President paints rosier picture of U.S. than voters see.

In the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 73 percent of registered voters said the country is on the wrong track, while just 18 percent said it is headed in the right direction. The 73 percent figure is the second-highest in the president’s nearly eight years in office.

The poll was no outlier. These are the wrong-track numbers for the last ten polls in the RealClearPolitics average of polls: 67, 70, 67, 71, 73, 69, 79, 68, 60 and 66.

And yet, in spite of clear evidence that a majority of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, the president exhorted the nation, “Thank you for this incredible journey — let’s keep it going.”

Obama spoke as if broad areas of American life are better than ever.

Well, for him and his cronies, that’s true.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College learning takes 2.76 hours/day.

The average full-time college student spends only 2.76 hours per day on all education-related activities,” according to a Heritage study. No wonder few complete a four-year degree in four years, write Lindsey Burke, Jamie Bryan Hall and Mary Clare Reim.

Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, full-time college students average 1.18 hours in class per day and 1.53 hours studying for a total of 19.3 hours per week.

By contrast, they spend 31 hours a week on socializing and recreation.

Sixty percent of full-time college students have jobs, Heritage reports. They average 16.3 hours per week of work. That doesn’t add up to a very tough schedule, the authors point out. “Why are taxpayers heavily subsidizing a period in some people’s lives when combined education and work efforts are at their lowest?”

Because the higher education industry is a major source of funding, propaganda, and footsoldiers for the Democratic Party.

UNSKEW! Clinton campaign manager rejects poll numbers as bad as Trump’s.

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told reporters and delegates that the campaign does not accept poll numbers that show her and Donald Trump having similar unfavorable ratings.

“I don’t necessarily accept their data and their premise,” Mook said of the Gallup polling that shows Clinton and Trump having similar negative ratings. “However, this has been a challenge for her and I think you’re going to hear her touch on it a bit tonight, knowledge that some people are still skeptical.”

Mook says that he believes the best way for Clinton to boost these numbers is for voters to “get to know” the Democrat better, which is something she will try to communicate in her speech tonight.

I question whether getting to know Hillary will make voters like her any more.

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JOE MCCARTHY DEMOCRATS. (bumped)

SO MUCH BIGOTRY IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: Off-duty cop refused service at McDonald’s in Texas.

Related: Virginia police officer refused service at Noodles & Co.; Two employees fired for their ‘inexcusable actions.’

HILLARY AN UNLOVED NOMINEE: “…at best level-pegging with Mr Trump…” Hey, The Economist is trying to give her a positive spin and claims the Dems have “successfully united” behind her.

THEY HATE ANYONE WHO IS A BARRIER TO POWER: Hacked voicemails reveal Democratic rage against Bernie.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Coming (And Hilarious) Democrat Implosion.

WHAT’S THAT SPOT ON HER TONGUE? Is there some reason why Hillary keeps doing this gaping-maw face?

FOREIGN POLICY: Donald Trump Is the Peace Candidate: He alone can end 70 years of dangerous tensions with Russia — by extending a hand of friendship to our longtime adversary.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Guys are still picking up the tab, while some women offer but don’t really mean it.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO COMMEMORATE 1966 SNIPER ATTACK: 50 years ago on August 1. This will be a memorial service for the victims and survivors of the massacre.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: Armed Citizens and the 1966 University of Texas Sniper Attack.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Southern Illinois University, with about 17,000 students, is eliminating a quarter of its graduate teaching assistant jobs when classes resume next month and is letting 50 faculty positions go unfilled at its main campus.”

If only someone had warned them.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: After DNC hack, the case for paper ballots. Are paper ballots really a superior technology to voting machines? Absolutely.

OVER AT POLITICO: “Sunny, edgy” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook continues his ugly Joe McCarthy reanimation. Robby sounds a bit desperate. Hey, Joe McCarthy was edgy and desperate. But, yeah, Robby admits that Hillary is a hard sell. Politico’s Glenn Thrush says the whole Democratic convention was a “Rube Goldberg contraption built for the sole purpose of making a skeptical America trust Hillary Clinton.” Robby was the convention’s Rube — according to Thrush, not me. But I won’t disagree, I’d just employ a lower case “r.” Indeed, Robby, your boss has got a trust problem. For so very many reasons. But let me give you three, with documentation: (1) Loretta Lynch’s compromising encounter; (2) Jim Comey’s sell out of the rule of law; (3) Hillary’s criminal compromise of US national security. We’ll get to Clinton Foundation corruption and her Benghazi fiasco later. I promise.

SOONER OR LATER, THIS STATEMENT WILL BE TRUE, BUT IT’S BEEN MADE, AND THEN BEEN WRONG, AN AWFUL LOT THIS YEAR: Schumer: Trump has ‘reached his high-water mark.’

SAVING YOUR AUDIENCE, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG, HOLLYWOOD:

On Tuesday, film industry house organ Variety ran the headline, “Box Office Meltdown: Hollywood Races to Win Back Summer Crowds.”

Apparently by alienating half their audience, as Heat Street notes: The Internet Is Furious Over Ghostbusters’ Hillary Clinton Endorsement.

In a world of hundreds of TV channels and somewhere in the (very crowded) neighborhood of a billion Websites, Hollywood is the last mass media left – but a crappy hyper-politicized product and insulting its potential consumers doesn’t sound like a very good strategy to preserve its existence.