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Fury as HBO's Game of Thrones shows President George W. Bush's decapitated head impaled on a STAKE
dailymail.co.uk/ ^ | 6/13/12 | Emily Anne Epstein

Posted on 06/13/2012 8:37:00 PM PDT by Justaham

Politicians are calling for a boycott of HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones after the creator's 'despicable' decision to include former President George W. Bush's severed head in several scenes.

In the tenth episode of the first season, Mr Bush's decapitated head is seen impaled on a wooden spike, covered in filthy long hair and slathered in dirt.

Show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who noted the appearance in the series' DVD commentary, insist it wasn't a political statement - just a prop.

But the image has provoked outrage among some Republican politicians.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: decapitatedhead; gameofthrones; georgewbush; hbo
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To: Justaham

Add a band called the Dead Trayvons, it’s not a political statement, just a prop!


41 posted on 06/14/2012 7:28:05 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: christx30

Hey, speaking of real-life parallels to GOT characters, how about this one: feckless, closet homo, pretend king Renly Baratheon (BHO), with his cynical, gold-digging beard of a wife (Moochelle), and his bound companion/secret gay lover (reggie L.)?


42 posted on 06/14/2012 10:40:33 AM PDT by thanatz
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To: Redcloak
I thought she was looking more like Old Nan.

Maybe smelling like Old Nan....

43 posted on 06/14/2012 8:02:42 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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