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Texas Republican congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw has chided \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d comic Davidson for poking fun of the eyepatch he wears because he was badly wounded during his third tour in Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crenshaw, who is running against Democrat Todd Litton for an open suburban Houston district seat, replied in a tweet on Sunday, saying: \u201cGood rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended. That being said, I hope @nbcsnl recognizes that vets don\u2019t deserve to see their wounds used as punchlines for bad jokes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended. 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