Comedian ridicules wounded veteran
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Why is our culture so divisive? Today's podcast identifies three reasons for the acrimony of our day and shows us how to respond in ways that honor our Lord. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis in Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Tuesday, November 6, 2018. |
| 0:07.2 | It took Pete Davidson 25 seconds to offend millions of Americans. The Saturday Night Live comedian was making fun of political candidates last weekend when he came to Dan Crenshaw, a Republican candidate for Congress from Texas. |
| 0:20.2 | Crenshaw is a former Navy SEAL who served |
| 0:22.5 | five deployments overseas. In 2012, he was hit by an IED blast in Afghanistan. His right eye was |
| 0:28.9 | destroyed in the blast, and his left eye was severely damaged. After several difficult surgeries, |
| 0:34.4 | Lieutenant Commander Crenshaw eventually regained sight in his left eye. |
| 0:38.0 | He deployed twice more to the Middle East in 2014 and South Korea in 2016. |
| 0:43.0 | He was medically retired in September of 2016 after 10 years in the SEAL teams. |
| 0:48.0 | He was decorated with two bronze stars, one for Valor, the Purple Heart, and the Navy |
| 0:52.8 | Commendation Medal with Valor. He then completed |
| 0:55.5 | his master's degree in public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is now |
| 1:00.5 | running for Congress in the Houston District where he grew up. Davidson, commenting on the patch |
| 1:05.7 | Crenshaw wears over his damaged right eye, made a remark about the veteran that is so offensive, |
| 1:10.6 | I won't repeat it here. |
| 1:12.0 | Crenshaw replied on Twitter, good rule in life, I try hard not to offend, I try harder not to be |
| 1:17.5 | offended. That being said, I hope Saturday Night Live recognizes that vets don't deserve to see |
| 1:22.8 | their wounds used as punchlines for bad jokes. Crenshaw later described Davidson's performance as mean-spirited, but said he did need an apology, |
| 1:31.5 | quote, I want us to get away from this culture where we demand apologies every time someone |
| 1:35.9 | misspeaks. |
| 1:36.8 | I think that would be very healthy for our nation to go in that direction. |
| 1:40.4 | We don't need to be outwardly outraged. |
| 1:42.4 | I don't need to demand apologies from them. They can do whatever they want. They're feeling the heat from around the country right now, and that's fine. Why are our politics so angry today? It's not that our divisions are new. A persuasive case can be made that the United States is actually composed of 11 different sociopolitical regions, nor are the divisive |
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