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On the weekend before the 2018 general election, ''Saturday Night Live'' aired an attack on "unusually looking" [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidates. Liberal comedian Pete Davidson placed on the screen the photo of the one-eyed [[Texas]] congressional candidate [[Dan Crenshaw]] amid much laughter though Davidson said in his remarks that Crenshaw had lost the eye in war. Crenshaw, who did not see the live broadcast, said that any apology that might come from ''Saturday Night Live'' would be insincere and therefore unacceptable. Instead, he urged the program to donate $1 million to veterans' causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/tv/republican-candidate-veteran-dan-crenshaw-pete-davidson-apology-joke-kenan-thompson-reacts/|title=Veteran Dan Crenshaw Says Pete Davidson Shouldn't Apologize for Joke — But SNL Costar Disagrees|publisher=People.com|date=November 5, 2018|author=Jodi Guglielmi|accessdate=November 6, 2018}}</ref>
On the weekend before the 2018 general election, ''Saturday Night Live'' aired an attack on "unusually looking" [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidates. Liberal comedian Pete Davidson placed on the screen the photo of the one-eyed [[Texas]] congressional candidate [[Dan Crenshaw]] amid much laughter though Davidson said in his remarks that Crenshaw had lost the eye in war. Crenshaw, who did not see the live broadcast, said that any apology that might come from ''Saturday Night Live'' would be insincere and therefore unacceptable. Instead, he urged the program to donate $1 million to veterans' causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/tv/republican-candidate-veteran-dan-crenshaw-pete-davidson-apology-joke-kenan-thompson-reacts/|title=Veteran Dan Crenshaw Says Pete Davidson Shouldn't Apologize for Joke — But SNL Costar Disagrees|publisher=People.com|date=November 5, 2018|author=Jodi Guglielmi|accessdate=November 6, 2018}}</ref>
Grayson Quay wrote at The American Conservative website:
{{Cquote|On May 8, the notoriously left-wing Vice ran an opinion piece by Harry Cheadle with the headline “‘[[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]’ Cold Opens Are Unfunny, Elitist Pieces of Liberal Propaganda.” The piece went on to lambast these political segments for consisting almost entirely of “obvious applause lines” meant to reassure the “anti-Trump crowd” that all of their “knee-jerk impulses and prejudices are correct.” This is not satire. This is preaching to the choir, or, as Cheadle puts it, “spoon-feeding the audience their own spit-up.” Satire is under no obligation to mock all sides equally, and it certainly can and should take aim at particular targets. But it cannot be allowed merely to soothe its viewers into complacency. Most anti-Trump comedy exists only to remind liberals that everybody who matters already agrees with them and that anyone who doesn’t agree is crazy... This level of smugness, which bears just as much responsibility for Trump’s rise as Trump himself, is ripe for satire.<ref>[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-donald-trump-killed-left-wing-political-satire/ How Donald Trump Killed Left-Wing Political Satire] by Grayson Quay, The American Conservative website</ref>}}
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