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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFired & reported to the Secret Service
No self-awareness. No decorum. No remorse. No sense.
I truly worry about my president.
http://www.modbee.com/2012/11/08/2448491/obama-threat-gets-woman-fired.html
Thursday, Nov. 08, 2012
Obama threat gets Turlock woman fired, reported to Secret Service
By Marijke Rowland
mrowland@modbee.com
TURLOCK -- A Turlock woman who posted inflammatory comments on Facebook about President Barack Obama has been fired from her job and reported to the U.S. Secret Service. Turlock resident Denise Helms, 22, posted shortly after the president's re-election Tuesday on her Facebook page, "And another 4 years of the (n-----). Maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!"
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She told the Fox 40 reporter: "I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying like I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don't think I'd care one bit."
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Helms graduated from Placer High School in 2008, according to her Facebook page, and has the Romney/Ryan 2012 page among her "likes." She is not listed as a registered voter in the state registry database.
Helms could not be reached for comment by The Bee. She told Fox 40 she wasn't aware she could be investigated by the Secret Service for her post.
"OK, but what did I do wrong? That's fine if they want to," she told the reporter. "But I don't understand what I did wrong."
News video at link.
"But I don't understand what I did wrong." OMG! You stupid person, you!
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Fired & reported to the Secret Service (Original Post)
dmr
Nov 2012
OP
She doesn't understand and she would've voted Republican - Uh-huh! n/t
socialindependocrat
Nov 2012
#3
Operative word is "would have" - implying. if she could have... n/t
socialindependocrat
Nov 2012
#11
for brains.
liberalmuse
(18,876 posts)2. She's a stupid kid, as most are.
Well, not really, but I had to show a little compassion being librul and all. Most kids aren't that stupid. I'd hope the SS will give her a stern warning (and maybe scare her a bit with a short civics lesson) and maybe she'll process her thoughts first before splotching them on the intertubes.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)7. She's not a kid, but rather, a 22 year old woman that...
just happens to be dumber than a bag of rocks.
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)3. She doesn't understand and she would've voted Republican - Uh-huh! n/t
yardwork
(64,935 posts)8. The article says that she's not registered to vote!
She likes Romney/Ryan on her FB page, though.
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)11. Operative word is "would have" - implying. if she could have... n/t
spanone
(137,744 posts)4. they have always been among us....
Enrique
(27,461 posts)5. "a lot of people apparently think I'm racist"
Helms has since deleted the post and posted again about the incident. It reads: "So apparently my post last night about Obama got onto Twitter and Fox 40 came and interviewed me cause apparently a lot of people in Sacramento think I'm crazy and racist. WOW is all I got to say!! I'm not racist and I'm not crazy. just simply stating my opinion.!!!"
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Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/2012/11/08/2448491/obama-threat-gets-woman-fired.html#storylink=cpy
Bake
(21,977 posts)10. And the kicker is that she doesn't think she's racist!
"Just stating [her] opinion." So she's not racist, it's just her OPINION that's racist ...
Another one from the shallow end of the gene pool.
Bake
greatauntoftriplets
(177,079 posts)6. What a nitwit.
Guess she'll learn that elections have (unexpected) consequences.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)9. Stupid is what they raise over at FOX.
Initech
(102,784 posts)12. Threatening the president and you can't understand what you did wrong????
Kaleva
(38,713 posts)13. Her words: "The assassination part is kind of harsh."
It's more then "kind of".