{"id":383718,"date":"2018-11-05T02:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/porno-hitman-snls-pete-davidson-blasted-for-mocking-war-veteran-who-lost-eye-in-afghanistan-rt-us-news-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T02:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T01:03:53","slug":"porno-hitman-snls-pete-davidson-blasted-for-mocking-war-veteran-who-lost-eye-in-afghanistan-rt-us-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/porno-hitman-snls-pete-davidson-blasted-for-mocking-war-veteran-who-lost-eye-in-afghanistan-rt-us-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Porno hitman\u2019!? SNL\u2019s Pete Davidson blasted for mocking war veteran who lost eye in Afghanistan \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.11\/thumbnail\/5bdf44aadda4c89f2a8b458e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A grinning Pete Davidson caught hell online for making fun of a wounded Navy SEAL and congressional candidate, saying his eyepatch made him look like a \u201chitman in a porno movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As part of a Saturday Night Live segment mocking the physical appearance of \u2013mostly Republican\u2013 midterm election candidates, Davidson singled out former Navy Seal and Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw, who wears an eyepatch since an IED blast almost took his sight in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cYou may be surprised to hear he\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0a Congressional candidate from Texas,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Davidson said,\u00a0<em>\u201cand\u00a0<strong>not a hitman in a porno movie.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ukbtA3df8BI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, I know he lost his eye in a war or whatever,\u201d<\/em> Davidson added as the audience laughed, before giggling himself.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson moved swiftly on, but conservatives on Twitter were unamused.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Davidson making fun of a one-eyed war hero is only marginally worse than Kate McKinnon singing \u201cHallelujah\u201d after Hillary lost. The McKinnon thing is actually probably worse, since there was no universe in which it\u2019d be funny, and the Davidson thing is at least a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonnyBunch\/status\/1059135777240694784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Davidson on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SNL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SNL<\/a> mocking a War Veteran who lost his eye for his country, is the sickest thing ever. <\/p>\n<p>He should be immediately fired and never be able to find a job in comedy again.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArianaGrande?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArianaGrande<\/a> was right to breakup with his blood deprived ass!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ERIK FINMAN (@erikfinman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikfinman\/status\/1059140744785448961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Davidson mocking GOP candidate Dan Crenshaw because he wears an eyepatch after he lost right eye in an IED blast as a Navy SEAL was truly abhorrent and rotten to the core. And the fact that so-called &#8220;joke&#8221; was approved by an entire staff of writers is horrific. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SNL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SNL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosephWulfsohn\/status\/1058952361798967297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The National Republican Congressional Committee demanded an apology from Davidson on Sunday, releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/2018\/11\/04\/nrcc-statement-snls-pete-davidson-mocking-war-hero-dan-crenshaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> saying <em>\u201cGetting dumped by your pop star girlfriend is no excuse for lashing out at a decorated war hero who lost his eye serving our country\u201d<\/em> \u2013 a reference to Davidson\u2019s high-profile breakup with singer Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n<p>According to his campaign website, Crenshaw was hit by an IED blast while on his third deployment in Afghanistan in 2012. The blast completely obliterated Crenshaw\u2019s right eye and left him blind in the left, but doctors were able to restore his sight in this eye. Following his injury, Crenshaw deployed twice again, once to the Middle East and once to South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other candidates insulted by Davidson on Saturday were Florida Senate candidate Rick Scott, who <em>\u201clooks like someone tried to whittle Bruce Willis out of a penis,\u201d<\/em> and Greg Pence \u2013the vice-president\u2019s brother\u2013 who was compared to <em>\u201ca Ken doll that spent a year in the river.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Davidson, however, also mocked his own appearance too, saying he looks <em>\u201clike I make vape juice in a bathtub.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/443092-pete-davidson-navy-seal-afghanistan\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grinning Pete Davidson caught hell online for making fun of a wounded Navy SEAL and congressional candidate, saying his eyepatch made him look like a \u201chitman in a porno movie.\u201d As part of a Saturday Night Live segment mocking the physical appearance of \u2013mostly Republican\u2013 midterm election candidates, Davidson singled out former Navy Seal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}