Bush decapitated in 'Game of Thrones' (with update) [View all]

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Last edited Thu Jun 14, 2012, 12:42 PM - Edit history (1)

In the "Game of Thrones," you win or you die, and George W. Bush did the latter in the HBO series — by decapitation.

That is, a prop head of the former president appears in the TV show, according to series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss in the DVD commentary for season one, the website io9 reports. In a scene in the finale — where the character of Sansa Stark is forced to look at the severed head of her father, Ned Stark — Bush’s head is seen decorating a spike.

The creators insist “it's not a political statement.”

"The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It's not a choice, it's not a political statement, it’s just we had to use what heads we had around,” Benioff and Weiss say in the DVD commentary.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/06/bush-decapitated-in-game-of-thrones-126085.html



VIDEO HERE:
http://io9.com/5918114/george-w-bushs-decapitated-head-appeared-on-game-of-thrones



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UPDATE:
‘Game of Thrones’ Apologizes
This is one way to get ratings. HBO and Game of Thrones apologized on Wednesday after the fantasy series featured former President George W. Bush’s head on stake. The head of the former president appeared for just a second in the fantasy series last year, and went unnoticed until a Reddit user flagged it. In the DVD commentary for the series’ first season, one of the writers admitted Bush’s head appears in some of the beheading scenes—but insisted there were no political motives.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/06/14/game-of-thrones-apologizes-for-using-george-w-bush-s-head-on-a-stake.html