There is no end to American Madness.The apology by HBO is more damaging.
“This is apparently a bad thing? So you know on Game Of Thrones when Ned Stark’s noggin gets posted on a sharp stick outside of King’s Landing to just make us hate dumb stupid Joffrey even more? Did you ever wonder who those other heads belonged to?
One of them belongs to the 43rd President of the United States, and HBO is in deep doo-doo over it. Apparently when they were setting up the scene, the prop masters ran out of generic heads to use and had to settle for whatever they had lying around – which just happened to be W’s dome. They covered it with a long wig and nobody actually noticed until showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss pointed it out in commentary on the DVD. And then the world lost it.
Brooklyn Republican Party chairman Craig Eaton: “Americans of all political persuasions should stand up and demand that things like this should not continue. They should boycott watching this particular show … It doesn’t matter what their intent is. They didn’t intend it to be political, but now that it is, they should remove it.”
http://guyism.com/entertainment/tv/george-bushs-severed-head-cameos-game-of-thrones.html
Cable television network HBO apologized Thursday amid outrage for featuring a severed head resembling former President George W. Bush in a scene in its fantasy drama “Game of Thrones.”
“We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste,” Home Box Office said, blaming executive producers of the series for an “inadvertent careless mistake.”
“We are sorry this happened.”
The likeness of the presidential noggin appears for just a second with others impaled atop a row of stakes in an episode in the first season aired last year.
The show’s creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss recently drew attention to it in a commentary for the DVD.
“It’s not a choice, it’s not a political statement. We just had to use whatever heads we had lying around,” they said.
http://entertainment.inquirer.net/45139/hbo-apologizes-for-george-w-bush-severed-head-scene
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