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This Woman Lost Her Job Over a Facebook Post — And You Won’t Believe What She Said About Obama

Nov. 9, 2012 4:45pm Jason Howerton

An outrageous Facebook post, calling President Barack Obama “the n***er” and referencing his assassination, has cost a California women her job and reputation after the disgusting message went viral.

Denise Helms, of Turlock, Calif., reportedly set the post to “private” on her Facebook page, but someone snapped an image and put it on Twitter.

Denise Helms Gets Fired After Outrageous Anti Obama Facebook Post

(FOX40)

The message got the attention of the Secret Service and her employer, Cold Stone Creamery. She was promptly fired and the company spent much of Thursday responding to angry tweets about the woman’s post,” FOX40 reports.

“This employee is no longer w/the (sic) company & her disgraceful and completely unacceptable comments do not reflect our views,” the company tweeted via its official Twitter account.

Helms had deleted her post and deactivated her Facebook account, but the damage was done.

Denise Helms (FOX40)

What may be even more disturbing than her post, is the fact that she initially didn’t appear to be remorseful at all.

“I don’t understand what I did wrong,” she told FOX40.

However, she later admitted that what she said was “wrong.” Helms also argued that she is not a racist and said she doesn’t really want Obama to be assassinated because, after all, he “does have two kids.”

“I think I was just really upset, and (the post) just kind of came out,” Helms said.

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kadster01
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:37pm
Nuh uh…. when the New Black Panthers can repeatedly spew their vicious hatred and call for the murders of white people and “summa dey babies” anyone and everyone should be granted the same right to free speech. When “reverend” Jeremiah Wright can call for God’s damnation on America, and that other “pastor” who spoke at Obama’s Inauguration can say all white people are going to hell, this woman should be allowed to exercise her 1st Amendment right as well. Stop being such cowards!

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environmentalandawake
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:36pm
Tell ya what. A person’s skin has nothing to do with character. This Rascism crud needs to end! Having said that, this President’s soul “Shines with Pure Evil!” Have you seen all the resignations and proposed resignations this week? All the major players are distancing themselves. Something is very very askew!

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- joxercat
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:48pm
  Hmm something in the amount of 43 trillion dollars maybe? All the key players who are in the law suit are jumping ship. They will be prosecuted in civil court while Obama will have to be impeached… we will see ….
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:50pm
  We all do seem to have short memories no?
  
  Bush White House Turnover 2004
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_shakeup_%282004%29
  
  I’m pretty sure Clinton had some too. I know Dick Morris was one.
  
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rafa2design
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:35pm
Lincoln and Reagan were shot at for far less reasons …

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KingDork
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:34pm
Considering just today I had dealt with far worse posts from liberals/”moderates” than what she posted. When are they going to punish them? *hears crickets* oh wait right forgot this isn’t a free country, only the left can get away with anything now…

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meisterman41
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:33pm
People don’t like the “N” word? Well I don’t like being called a”White *******” by the Black Panthers! DOJ do your Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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offbrat56
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:32pm
I’m afraid this is only the beginning.

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Akira88
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:32pm
I wish Obama would have lost his shirt. Some things cannot be said. She’s lucky she didn’t end up in jail. Be glad you only lost your job.

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- joxercat
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:51pm
  Be glad huh… now how will she pay her bills and feed her kids if she has them? she was at least trying to be a productive member of society. She had a job! Why should she feel lucky? In this day and age it is a fate that is not good to have to endure. She needs to make a lot of noise about this.
  
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SidneyDave
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:30pm
When will people learn that there is no such thing as privacy in America. Everything is monitored and now we have government drones flying overhead. I am glad that I can still remember America, land of the free. I hope I can tell my grandchildren and great grandchildren of the good times we had in America before we went socialist.

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Obamujahadeen
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:24pm
Jeffersonspen, my thoughts exactly…. ;) 80% of that crowd haven’t worked since 68. :(

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ginjit.dw
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:24pm
Everyone’s posts are monitored. I thought so, now I know. The preceding president was threatened with death many times. That was their right to voice their opinion. What horse s!!t. This is the first salvo of the second four years for the chief organizer. More to come……..

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- Metallicat
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:37pm
  I agree. The liberals were practicing free speech when they were calling for the death of Bush. They also threatened death to Romney if he was elected,no fuss made. what hypocrisy.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:24pm
The media will be all over this story. But thousands of tweets calling for murder of Romney..media silence.

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Larry E
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:23pm
This is the Brave New World boys and girls! We’re all supposed to agree with, and totally agree with Glorious Leader or we’ll get fired, ostracized, and otherwise punished.

As a side note, get off Facebook, Twitter, and all that other crap. Either have PERSONAL friends that you speak to face to face, or they’re too far away to speak to face to face call them on a heavens forbid land line, or a poor second a “private” email.

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00gabooga
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:22pm
She counts kids like he counts states!

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GrumpyCat
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:21pm
If the ACLU is not a left-wing organization they will come to his woman’s defense. And she will win a large settlement for wrongful dismissal. I disagree with everything about the case. I think the employer should have every right to dismiss such an employee. But I don’t think employers have that right under current interpretation of the law.

The problem I see with legalization of marijuana is that it implies employers must tolerate pothead employees. That insurance companies must insure potheads.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:30pm
  huh? potheads?… did i miss something?
  
  nope… just re-read the story.
  
  no mention of potheads.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:51pm
  East,
  
  I think they were the ones eating the ice cream.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:33pm
  lol ROTH..
  
  aren’t we, er, they always?
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:19pm
She wasn’t wrong.Eric Holder nominated as the Attorney General is wrong.

And the Secret Service? Yes,lets talk about the SS.I want a whore on the taxpayer dime too.

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aproudinfidel
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:18pm
I understand that she is an ignorant young lady, typical of today’s youth. Think things are bad now, wait till people like her are in charge.

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- joxercat
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:55pm
  I guess you voted for Obama and all his free love and free stuff. She did nothing wrong but take advantage of her freedom of speech. Just like all the Romney haters did.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:17pm
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I think it’s good for folks to vent their frustration through words, instead of physical violence.

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meisterman41
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:16pm
The Left can say and get away with anything they say, but when someone on the Right says something it’s time to dig the hole then make them get in it and start throwing the stones! Time to Wake-Up People!

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:21pm
  Please don’t justify this Jerry Springer-esque moron’s behavior by saying “the left does it too”.
  
  You really want to sink to their level?
  
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- meisterman41
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:38pm
  Talk Down to me EASTINFECTION! What do you do, wear earplugs 24/7? Or do you just have Selected Hearing?
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:47pm
  No Meister,
  
  I just hold myself to a higher standard than the ignorant douches on the left do.
  
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nilo
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:16pm
Civility died in this election cycle. This is one of the many failures in a God-less nation.

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Realman30
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:15pm
What’s the big deal!? Perhaps she has designs of being a rapper.

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scruffycat
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:15pm
Hey, call a spade a spade. The truth will set you free.

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Rational Man
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:14pm
They had the same double standard in China over Mao Tse Tung. Guess we can’t talk stuff about Chairman Obama either. Not that I approve of what she posted. I don’t. She might be looking at a jail cell next to the goofball that made the video that Obama claims started the violence in Bengazi. I do not approve of that either, but, either speech if free or it’s not!

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:13pm
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American citizens should always have freedom of speech, even when the speech is about the President or Islam.
Without freedom of speech, we are in a Dictatorship, not a Democracy.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:20pm
  She does have freedom of speech. She won’t be going to jail.
  
  Her boss has freedom of speech, too.
  
  He used it to say “you’re fired”
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:21pm
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  I will boycott my local Cold Stone Creamery.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:28pm
  if you’re that passionate about it then, by all means exercise your freedom of speech by doing just that.
  
  Me? don’t go there anyway. don’t like paying extra for ice-cream just so someone will chop it up and sing me a song.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:12pm
A Black Person could have said the Same about Romney,and have,and I do not think they should lose their job at Cold Stone Creamery. Maybe if she worked at the Post Office or with the Secret Service……But I do not see any National Security Risks from Cold Stone Creamery.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:18pm
  the government didn’t fire her… the business owner did.
  He has every right to.
  
  If you owned a business and one of your employees made NATIONAL NEWS by saying Romney’s a ******* and hopefully gets whacked… wouldn’t you fire them?
  
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- joxercat
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:01pm
  Eastinfection How does he have the right to fire her? It was her personal page not the stores and she was on her personal time. Cold stone is not that great of a place that this little post would notlose them any business. She was a minimum wage employee. Like all of America was cruising her FB page… not! Prove your point… why did he have the right…
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:31pm
  JOXER.. he fired her after it became a story and after people started calling the store to complain.
  
  Do you run a small business? I do. It’s hard enough to make a profit without employees making asses out of themselves as it is…
  
  I fired an employee once for saying the “F” word in front of a customer and i would do it again in a second.
  
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An_American_Thinker
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:10pm
This young woman was wrong to post what she did. Sadly though, what she said was no different than the deluge of nastiness directed toward George Bush or Republicans this election cycle. Similar threats were made against George Bush by television “news” personalities. This is the world these young people have grown up in. I don’t think she should have lost her job over it; she should have been counseled.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:14pm
  Bologna… If i was her boss, she would be toast.
  
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- PauliD
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:50pm
  She should de-friend ALL of her ‘friends’ on facebook.
  There are no laws against saying the N word, and there sure as hell are NO laws to say ‘kill all crackas and they babies’
  
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