Jimmy Carter, North Korea, and Duct Tape: Today's News for October 23rd

Daily Wire:

Jimmy Carter Unleashed: 

Russians Didn't Alter Election, Obama Didn't Deliver, We Didn't Vote For Hillary

At 93, Jimmy Carter is cutting loose.

The former president sat down with The New York Times recently and chatted about all kinds of subjects. The Times decided to play up the fact that Carter — one of the worst presidents in U.S. history — would love to go over to North Korea as an envoy.

But the Times is steadily proving how out of touch it is, and how it no longer seems to actually "get" what real news is.

So what does Carter think?

Carter was asked "Did the Russians purloin the election from Hillary?"

"I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes — or any votes," Carter said.

At least Carter isn't as loony as some Leftists, like his wife:

Carter and his wife, Roselyn, disagreed on the Russia question. In the interview, she "looked over archly [and said] 'They obviously did'" purloin the election.

“Rosie and I have a difference of opinion on that,” Carter said.

But that is where Jimmy's sanity ended:

Which prompted Carter to note that during the primary, they didn't vote for Hillary Clinton. "We voted for Sanders.” 

However, Carter has managed some connection with reality:

A recent Harvard study showed that 93% of new coverage about President Trump is negative.

But here's another shocker: Carter defended Trump.

"I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I've known about," Carter said. "I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation." 

Where Carter truly shines is in his solution to the whole controversy about NFL players kneeling:

Carter, who joined the other four living ex-presidents on Saturday for a hurricane fundraiser, put his hand on his heart when the national anthem played — and he has a strong opinion about what NFL players should do, too.

"I think they ought to find a different way to object, to demonstrate," he said. " I would rather see all the players stand during the American anthem." 

Sadly, the New York Times is correct in pointing to Carter's potential conflict of interest in his desire to negotiate with the North Koreans on behalf of the Trump administration. But knowing Carter, his motives are likely altruistic. He may have been an awful president, and his politics show it, but he has never shown himself to be a glory hound.

Speaking of North Korea, the big story on most media outlets today is:

Defense One:

EXCLUSIVE: US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. —  The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991.

That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of this base’s 11,000-foot runway — dubbed the “Christmas tree” for their angular markings — could once again find several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moment’s notice.

“This is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared,” Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, said in an interview during his six-day tour of Barksdale and other U.S. Air Force bases that support the nuclear mission. “I look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we’re prepared going forward.”

Goldfein and other senior defense officials stressed that the alert order had not been given, but that preparations were under way in anticipation that it might come. That decision would be made by Gen. John Hyten, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or Gen. Lori Robinson, the head of U.S. Northern Command. STRATCOM is in charge of the military’s nuclear forces and NORTHCOM is in charge of defending North America.

Notice they haven't actually initiated the alert status. They are just preparing for it.

Surprisingly, CNN's uber-Leftist analyst Stephen Collinson actually makes the unintentional case for this being a whole nothing burger:

There are no immediate signs that the administration is preparing for military action, for instance through evacuations of US military families in South Korea, or with a buildup of troops or materiel.

This is all just so much talk to scare the North Koreans. Move along, nothing to see here...

New York Daily News:

Substitute teacher duct tapes students’ mouths at Texas elementary school

A substitute teacher was barred from a Texas elementary school after students reported that the educator put duct tape over their mouths.

Carmello Brooks, a fifth grader at Maxdale Elementary School, told his mother he ripped the first strip of duct tape off his face, only to have the substitute return and put another over his mouth, the Killeen Daily Herald reported.

He said he and 12 other students sat with their mouths covered for at least 15 minutes.

During class Thursday at the Killeen school, the substitute — whose name was not released — allegedly duct taped the mouths of 10 students and ordered three others to do it themselves, according to a news release from the Killeen Independent School District.

A teacher across the hallway heard the commotion coming from the classroom and went to check in on the children.
 
All of the students involved were taken to the nurse's office as soon as school officials learned of the incident. They were uninjured and able to return to class the same day, school district spokesmen Terry Abott told KWTX.

Of course they were uninjured. This may be the most incredible solution to talking in class that has ever been created.

Instead of running this teacher out of the school, they should promote her to full time, and give her an award for advancing education in this country (I am thinking the Presidential Medal of Freedom is appropriate).

Then they should hand out rolls of duct tape to all their teachers.