Walter Mencken's Mike-Pence-at-Pride Instagram pix are funny, but surely this is Fake News. How do you get away with it? Is it good for the country?

Thanks, dwbat, I KNOW it's supposed to be satire, but sometimes it's so close to real that the line between real and fake is impossibly blurred. I do wonder how that's good for the country.

Looking much like these jokey Reader Instagrams of Vice President Mike Pence with costumed Pride celebrants, I saw the photo from the New York Times of our Vice President making serene small talk with the uniformed Border Patrol officer at the chain-link fence of a crowded Texas migrant asylum detention camp. Ultra-groomed Pence stands chatting, just feet away from throngs of motley unshaven male migrants packed like sardines inside, carrying those those distinctive silvery mylar blankets that are standard issue.

I guess if it had been a cartoon, it would be funny. But in this form, Mencken makes a joke of Real News, and I know that's not good for the country.