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  • 2018-08-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Vice President Mike Pence Warn Against 'Gay Aliens'? (en)
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  • In August 2018, the New Yorker's Andy Borowitz published a report positing that Vice President Mike Pence had proposed using the recently-announced Space Force to defend the United States against attacks by outer-space gays. That article prompted numerous queries from readers, even though Borowitz is a humorist and his Borowitz Report column is clearly labelled as satire by the New Yorker and categorized under humor on the magazine's web site: The humorous intent behind such articles is sometimes obscured when the content is aggregated or republished by other web sites, which (unlike the New Yorker) do not clearly label them as satire or humor. In this case, the gay aliens piece was republished by web sites such PoliticoPost.com and WorldNewsBuz.com without any indication that it was satirical in nature. In the summer of 2018, the administration of President Donald Trump announced plans to create a Space Force as the sixth branch of the United States military. On 9 August 2018 (the day of Borowitz's satirical article) Vice President Pence elaborated on the plans in a press conference at the Pentagon, declaring: The time has come to write the next great chapter in the history of our armed forces, to prepare for the next battlefield where America’s best and bravest will be called to deter and defeat a new generation of threats to our people, to our nation. Pence has frequently been the target of criticism and ridicule from some quarters for his perceived views on homosexuality and LGBT rights and his conservative Christian beliefs, an aspect that formed the basis of this Borowitz piece. (en)
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