SNL's Pete Davidson In Hot Water Over Mocking Injured Veteran

Perhaps mocking a veteran on national television isn't a good idea, especially one who has given up parts of his body in service to the nation. 

Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson is learning that lesson, that really shouldn't have to be learned. 

Davidson appeared as part of the Weekend Update segment, joking that Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw looks more like "a hit-man in a porno movie" than a politician, as a picture of the former Navy SEAL flashed on the screen. 

Crenshaw lost his right eye following an IED blast in Afghanistan, an injury that Davidson dismissed saying, "I'm sorry, I know he lost his eye in war, or whatever. Whatever." 

Both sides of the political aisle took to Twitter to condemn the line, with Crenshaw himself writing:


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