The university campus in Laramie was gripped by fear last week:
“I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican b–ch.”
The victim of this Facebook threat cited it as “an example of rape culture,” and who could doubt she was an object of twisted GOP lust?
All over campus, plus-sized Women’s Studies majors hid themselves behind dead-bolted doors, while University of Wyoming officials launched an investigation to find the hateful misogynist responsible for this crime. Fortunately, investigators didn’t have to look far:
A student at the University of Wyoming who claimed she was targeted for a Facebook rape threat because she “runs her liberal mouth all the time” faked the threat against herself, police say. Meg Lanker-Simons, 26, has been charged with interference with a police investigation by giving false statement. . . .
UW police . . . interviewed Lanker-Simons and searched her computer, and ”obtained substantial evidence verifying that the offending Facebook post came from Lanker-Simons’ computer.” Lanker-Simons “admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it,” according to the citation for a misdemeanor, which can be punished by up to a year in jail.
She threatened to “hatef–k” herself and “lied about not doing it”? Well, who can blame her? Obviously, anybody would be embarrassed to admit they wanted to “hatef–k” themselves, because our oppressive patriarchal society is so judgmental about auto-hate-eroticism:
“I wonder what would cause someone to be so filled with fury and lunacy, that such an odious method of drawing attention to oneself seems acceptable?”
We’re all mystified, Ace: Rush Limbaugh, Dan Riehl, Jim Hoft — even Professor Reynolds is unable to understand why Ms. Lanker-Simons would “be so filled with fury and lunacy.” Perhaps more mysterious is why some of her allies are silent about this suffering victim:
Lanker-Simons’s “Cognitive Dissonance” site was recognized for an award last year by the Center for American Progress’s Think Progress site.
And what is their reaction to the victimization of this liberal blogger whose award-winning excellence they recognized?
Hey, @thinkprogress: Any comment on the fake rape threat by your 2012 award winner, Meg Lanker-Simons? viralread.com/2013/05/01/rap…
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 1, 2013
Checking @thinkprogress feed again … No. Not a word today about their 2012 blog honoree Meg Lanker-Simons viralread.com/2013/05/01/rap… #tcot #p2
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 1, 2013
This silence is so . . . mysterious.
UPDATE: A portrait in liberal intellectual integrity:
To members of the press, et al. contacting me through this site
In regards to recent allegations, I’ve retained counsel and entered a plea of not guilty.
Any further questions can be directed to my attorney of record, Charles Pelkey of Laramie.
Thank you,
Meg
Ah, yes — the presumption of innocence! Quite interesting, coming from someone who organized a protest based on the presumed guilt of the imaginary online misogynists who threatened her. And the protest sign — “Rape Threats Are Not a Joke” — needs to be updated: “Fake Rape Threats Are Not a Real Joke,” or something.
But we should be grateful that Ms. Lanker-Simons has finally decided to exercise her constitutional right to be silent.
UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers! I was just perusing the reports of Monday’s protest at University of Wyoming before police exposed Ms. Lanker-Simons’s fraud:
The caption on Elizabeth Holder’s photo for the student newspaper:
UW students and Laramie community members take part of a protest against the UW Crushes website’s post on Monday afternoon in Simpson’s Plaza to raise awareness of the “rape culture” issue.
Let’s ask a simple question: What is “the ‘rape culture’ issue,” and why was it necessary to “raise awareness” about it? I mean, other than the fake threat Meg Lanker-Simons made against herself, allegedly.
Rape is a crime, punishable as a felony in Wyoming and in every other state of the Union. We know what rape is, but what is “rape culture”?
Furthermore, who is this Meg Lanker-Simons and why was she invested with so much credibility among “UW students and Laramie community members” that five days after she claimed someone said something rude about her on Facebook, people show up on campus for a protest rally on her behalf?
“It doesn’t just affect me. It affects everyone on campus,” Lanker-Simons said. “There are people who are scared because of this.”
This remark is rather ironic in the wake of subsequent events, but the question remains: Why should this one perpetually aggrieved misfit be able to garner so much publicity and support?
UPDATE III: Bill Quick adds his own observations:
Personally, after seeing the widescreen HD version of this lovely flower, I think her phony post was real wish-projection. She probably figured that hate-rapists didn’t give a rat’s ass who — or what — they screwed.
Which would at least give her a running chance at a sexual relationship.
Perhaps true, but unfortunate. I mean, as one of the commenters below remarks, the entire message of Ms. Lanker-Simons’s behavior can be summarized in five words: “Please pay attention to me!” Yet her desperate bid to become a famous victim has only exposed her to worldwide ridicule, while quite likely destroying whatever credibility she had as a “student activist” in Wyoming.
So now, instead of being a politically relevant lonely fat girl, she’s just a lonely fat girl, who will be ostracized as an embarrassment to her political allies. Maybe she should ask Neal Rauhauser, leader of the “Weiner Truthers,” how to convince the world she was framed.

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended http://t.co/s5Z5aWJ96m #TCOT
RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended http://t.co/s5Z5aWJ96m #TCOT
It just sounds fake. It reads like what it is, which is a Wymyn’s Studies major parroting a threat she thinks some evil right winger would make. It’s no surprise that a bunch of academic lefties would be so brainwashed that they wouldn’t smell the rat.
Mysterious?… It’s deafening.
RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended http://t.co/s5Z5aWJ96m #TCOT
“hatef-ck herself” AAaahahaahhaahhahahaaahhahaahaa!!!!! XD
there once was a girl named
Meg Lanker, who couldn’t get a real wanker…
so, she sighed and heaved,
her girdle breathed,
and dreamed of rape by a dreary ape…
alas, those she hated had more class, and with her monumental ass…
she concocted a plan,
to make her hatred stand.
Her cries to police made them spot the fleece, for she forgot one big clue:
No bag was to be found, which means no man would come around to face this ugly beast. They cracked the case, stared the ugly in the face, and slapped around lefty for this disgrace.
Meg Lanker, who had some issues with anger . . .
I don’t understand the need to possibly destroy someone’s life and attract attention to yourself.
I guess that’s why I’m not one of them.
Kevin Trainor Jr. liked this on Facebook.
To lefties, unflattering things unhappen.
Exposed GOP misogynist threatens to commit suicide on Meg Lanker-Simons, in protective custody until court date, at which time she will caused to relive the experience of threatening herself with rape again, you sick bastards.
Won’t ruin her life. “She only did it because she cared so much!“
She used the keystroke combination from the election of last fall. Ctrl+Alt+Rape. It does all the work for you.
Libtards live in an alternate universe where reality is a fairy tale made up to be whatever they want it to be at the moment. And it’s okay, because they care so much.
I’m guessing Ms. Lanker-Simons was distraught — perhaps suffering PTSD — after Ashley Judd backed out of the Kentucky Senate race.
I wouldn’t facef*ck her even on Hatebook.
Prog-Tard Stupid Disorder?
Or Munchausen Syndrome by Self-Proxy.
I’m pretty sure even HATE couldn’t get it up for her.
Just checked again………… I hear the fishing is good….. crickets.
Wanted to be Margaret Sanger
Richard Reed liked this on Facebook.
@smitty_one_each Lib playbook isn’t very thick. Remember Lib Reps falsely claiming Tea Party group shouted racial slurs at them? Despicable.
She made up some crap
And fell in a trap
And now she might go to the clanger
The entire situation in five words…
“Please pay attention to me?”
There once was a girl named Lanker, whose ass was as big as a tanker.
She couldn’t bait with her cooch, because she looked like a pooch,
And that just stirred up her rancor.
Now, THAT is art!
Plus it actually scans, another plus.
So I guess that means Laramie can call off the statewide manhunt for a depraved and nearsighted chubby chaser, then?
Of course, a six-week fad diet, a cheap dye job, a visit from What Not To Wear, and a good sturdy push-up bra, and you could turn her right into Meghan McCain.
I bet she cried like a little girl when she got busted.
Are we sure this is all that was done to this poor woman by the perpetrator? I mean, did anyone check her door for any nooses hanging off of them, or any other lynch threats?
Luckily the perpetrator was stopped before this poor woman was found hanging in Kentucky, with the word “Fed” scrawled on her chest.
What are you implying that Meg not only is ugly but stanks also. Bill Schmalfeld will hit it
“Would you hatef–k me?
“I’d hatef–k me…
“I’d hatef–k me so hard…!”
(/jamegumb) 😉
I just noticed the label at the bottom of the screen cap: Student Activist.
“Activist?” When I was in college, I only had time to get my work done, and maybe a little beer drinking after finals.
But then, I ended up with a degree where you can actually get a job,
Thank heaven the perp was caught before pictures of the potential crime could be taken and put on the internetz.
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Dan Collins hitting hardest…err…hardest hit!
If would have had to have been a pretty stout rope. Hemp might have done the trick.
Heh.
I think the real crime here is that she is 26 and still in college. Neurosurgeons are out of school by that time.
Meg needs to lay off the butter milkshakes.
As an angry conservative myself, there is no amount of hate I could build up to make my penis go along with that plan.
It appears she is being wiped clean from all of her websites as well as those sites that lauded her truth to power crap. She should disappear completely soon. Best diet plan evah!
From the photo, I thought this was about the winner of a Miss Piggy lookalike contest. this femhag does seem to have had her face set on fire, then put out with a shovel, no?
WILL NO ONE RID US OF THIS DAMNABLE PAUCITY OF GENUINE CONSERVATIVE RAPE THREATS?!