“Give Us Barabbas”: J.D. Winteregg gets fired from his teaching job
I didn’t see anything wrong with the ad by they guy I will be voting for in the upcoming Republican primary challenge against House Speaker John Boehner. J.D. Winteregg, has received outside support from the Tea Party Leadership Fund in his bid for Boehner’s House seat and produced a really effective video against Boehner that was very cleaver. If Winteregg’s time in congress would be half as innovative as his campaign, we would have very good representation in Congress indeed. He has been an adjunct professor at Cedarville University, a small Christian college in Cedarville, Ohio, for the last three years. Last week however, Winteregg was told his contract would not be renewed because of the controversial elements in a political ad, a video parody of erectile dysfunction advertisements centered around John Boehner’s name. Have a look for yourself.
“They said because of the ad that my relationship with them will be done. It’s over,” Winteregg said Monday. “The ad obviously touched a nerve.”
The minute-long video includes sexual innuendo and shows couples gazing longingly at each other—which is too much for Cedarville University, Winteregg’s former employer.
“Used on a daily basis, Winteregg in Congress will help you every time the moment is right — to have your voice heard at the federal level,” a narrator says in the ad. “If you have a Boehner lasting longer than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention.”
In a statement, Cedarville University spokesman Mark Weinstein said that Winteregg’s teaching responsibilities had concluded for the semester and that Winteregg is not scheduled to teach future classes.
“Cedarville University does not engage in partisan politics and holds a high regard for displaying Christian values in the community. When faculty or staff members participate in political conversations, interviews, advertisements, or endorsements, they are doing so as individual citizens. Mr. Winteregg in his recent political campaign video did not represent the views or values of Cedarville University,” Weinstein said.
So in other words Cedarville University is supporting John Boehner and the established political structure. They are willing to go to the extent of taking away the job of a person who challenges that establishment, yet thousands of teachers every year are protected from their jobs for bad behavior against their students—where sex acts, abuse, and manipulation are rampant. J.D. Winteregg lost his job for challenging the establishment.
Is it a mystery that good people in the teaching profession sit on their hands and keep their mouths shut—just doing what they are told? Who wants to lose their livelihood for participating in political theater? The answer is almost nobody—which is why so many vast evils are conducted right under our noses—because nobody has the courage to confront them. Because when they do, what happened to J.D. Winteregg is the most common result.
Winteregg was not fired from his job for a controversial ad against John Boehner. Cedarville University was not protecting itself from “sin” by standing up for God and lashing out at the Republican challenger. J.D. Winteregg was fired to preserve the status quo by sending a message to others thinking of following the lead of the young conservative. That message is intended to keep their mouths shut—hold their nose and vote for John Boehner and hold the party line against the Democrats. The message is intended to convince them to stay away from radical behavior such as pulling the center of political activity back to the right. The goal is to just hold the ground against the left. Essentially, the message is to play into the battle plan of the progressive which has affected virtually every institutional element of our society. It is this same behavior which has allowed a community activists like Obama to outmaneuver the Speaker of the House in virtually every major matter that has moved through Washington since 2010.
The battle between Boehner and Winteregg, and Republicans against Tea Party Conservatives is essentially the fight between young and innovative against old and sold out. Who knows what kind of guy Winteregg would be as a Congressman from Ohio. He may be great, or he may fall from grace. But we do know what kind of person John Boehner is—he has fallen from grace and is ineffective. He has lost his credibility and he’ll never get it back in political office. He enjoys the pageantry of the Presidency, he likes to golf with President Obama, and he is willing to cut deals surrendering conservativism to progressivism. Clearly Boehner should not be re-elected and a fresh face needs to take over.
However, because of Winteregg’s challenge of Boehner, Cedarville University has fired the young man and robbed him of his livelihood. Instead, they as a supposedly Christian college are willing to stand behind Boehner who has lost tremendous ground to an abortion advocate, a gay community cheerleader, and supporter of the legalization of illegal drugs. By supporting John Boehner they strengthen President Obama. Boehner has been kicked around and abused handedly by Obama and has proven himself unable to compete against a complete idiot—so why should he gain one vote in the May primary? Why would Cedarville University not back a fellow Christian soldier marching off to war in Winteregg, because they are part of the problem—enablers afraid of confrontation and real support of conservative ideals. They are happy to allow themselves to be fed to the lions of progressivism without raising a fist, or defending themselves in the least way, instead, they threw Winteregg to the lions in much the way that the mob in Jerusalem released Barabbas and convicted the “King of the Jews.” That is not to say that J.D. Winteregg is Jesus Christ, but like the Christ he is challenging the authority of his day, and they are treating him the same way. With a crucifixion intended to place the insurgents back into the shadows to lick their wounds and preserve the livelihood of the Pharisees, the Republicans under Boehner are protecting their party from innovation. And they don’t care who they have to sacrifice to do it. Today it is J.D. Winteregg, tomorrow it may be you dear reader. But on May 6th when voters cast their support behind John Boehner, they will essentially be declaring…………………”GIVE US BARABBAS!” And through the election process baffled Pontius Pilot types within the political establishment will quietly be surprised to see Barabbas set free to continue playing golf with the American insurgent—Barack Obama. Meanwhile, J.D. Winteregg will be treated as an outcast, jobless and battered for challenging the orthodox authority of the Republican Party—particularly at Christian Colleges.
Those same minds will then wonder why there is so much evil in the world, and why there are no courageous heroes rising up to fight it. Then they will find themselves following Barabbas to the ends of the earth rolling in the looted wealth of established—legalized theft—and Cedarville University will get its desired donations to keep it funded from the same people who gave Boehner money to stay Speaker of the House—in name only.
Rich Hoffman www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com
