Ok, I guess I dont really get this. Was this really on screen for THAT long for people to really care THIS much?
they may fear some of us are becoming activists and might finally cancel HBO or those related. “Follow the money trail”?
No, their were multiple heads on spikes, very gory. There was no way one could tell it was him. The producers pointed it out in an interview.
Since it’s the principle of the matter (for me), I don’t care how long it was on screen. I hope this creates a major annoyance for HBO. (I don’t care how far down the totem pole the problem originated.)
I am SICK of the blatant hypocrisy from the liberals.
Yes,it IS a big deal.
Just as the “sniper crosshairs” picture of Bush a few years ago.
only HBO is actually doing something to correct the disgusting situation for which I applaud them.
A competent PR person would have said the following:
“All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.”
Instead, HBO is saying “you got us, we hate Bush.”
There has to be much more to the story than they’re letting on. Someone has to have the feeling that this isn’t going to go away unless they go to extremes in making good and apologizing. Can’t someone just check into rehab?
My Cable Co had an HBO preview last weekend. I marathoned S1 and S2 of Thrones.
I didn’t even notice the GWB head. I recall several on spikes, but none, other than the main character who got beheaded, was showing that close or distinctive.
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Since HBO is going to this extensive of an effort, apparently the inclusion was intended to be GWB’s head.
Thus, the inclusion was not done in a vacuum. It had to be designed, created, propped, and videoed. That would indicate that several people would need to have been involved.
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Much ado about over-sensitivity by some immature people involved in the development and production of the scene.
No, I watched it. Never would have guessed it was a GWB head fake. There were a bunch of heads. This is really stupid. To yank the sake of that episode is a bit over the top.
No,it wasn't. I have both seasons on DVD. I watched the episode (Sansa is forced to look at her Father and nanny's heads on spikes by King Joffrey)You wouldn't have seen at all even knowing it's there. Only by slowing it down frame by frame will you get a glimpse, maybe.
People need to get a life and get over it. This is stupid. The show is one of the very best HBO has ever done (Second only to Rome)
No, nobody even noticed until somebody paid attention to the commentary track. This whole thing is a stink over nothing.
Oh, yes. This is far, far worse than anything that Obama has done.
There aren't enough legitimate things to be outraged about these days, you see, for the TV-addict crowd.
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06/14/2012 8:04:29 PM PDT · by Eva · 26 replies Breitbart TV ^ | 61/13/12 | John NolteThe producers behind HBO's "Game of Thrones" would've been better off had they simple said what is likely the truth, that they hate George W. Bush and impaled his prosthetic head on a pole for the kind of childish shits and giggles the Secret Service might want to look into. Instead, they offer absurd explanations that, in my opinion, only prove what sniveling weasals (sic) they really are: |
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06/14/2012 5:19:36 PM PDT · by tobyhill · 10 replies ABC 30 KFSN ^ | 6/14/2012 | staffHBO and producers of "Game of Thrones" apologized Thursday for a scene that depicted former President George W. Bush's severed head on a spike. The scene first aired last year and was repeated on a DVD release in March. But in a particularly bad piece of timing for HBO, stories about it spread online this week, when the network premiered a documentary on Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush. Bush's head was one of several on spikes in a scene where King Joffrey reveals to his fiancé the severed head of her father, who he had judged disloyal. The... |
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06/14/2012 9:30:41 AM PDT · by antidemoncrat · 23 replies Fox News ^ | 6/24/21HBO did not respond to our request for comment, but as outrage mounted Wednesday, they released a statement saying they were "deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste." HBO also said the scene would be removed from future DVD pressings. |
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06/14/2012 8:38:40 AM PDT · by pabianice · 29 replies NY Post ^ | 6/14/12LOS ANGELES -- HBO has apologized for using a model head of former President George W. Bush in a grisly decapitation scene for its hit drama "Game of Thrones." The tenth episode of the first season of "Game of Thrones," now out on DVD, features the younger Bush's head on a stake. Commentary on the DVD notes that his head appears in a "couple of beheading scenes." The show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss stated that George W. Bush's was used as physical inspiration to create a head for a scene in which King Joffrey shows Sansa Stark her... |
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06/14/2012 6:38:18 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 41 replies NY Times ^ | 14 June 2012 | David ItzkoffHBO has apologized for a scene in its hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones” that showed the decapitated head of former President George W. Bush on a pike and said the scene will be removed from future DVD releases, the Web site io9.com reported. ... “The last head on the left is George Bush,” the producers say in the audio commentary. “George Bush’s head appears in a couple 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.” |
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06/14/2012 6:29:46 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies Hotair ^ | 06/14/2012 | AllahPunditVia Mediaite. The producers say it’s not political and that they used him just because they happened to have a spare Bush head lying around (what?), but Gothamist wants so badly to believe that it's a Gesture Of Defiance towards our deposed Hitler that I almost hope for their sake that it's deliberate.The perfunctory denial: HBO responded to CBSNewYork.comÂ’s request for comment on Wednesday night, offering the following statement from Benioff and Weiss:“What happened was this: we use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We canÂ’t afford to have these all made from scratch,... |
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| Fury as HBO's Game of Thrones shows President George W. Bush's decapitated head impaled on a STAKE |
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06/13/2012 8:37:00 PM PDT · by Justaham · 42 replies dailymail.co.uk/ ^ | 6/13/12 | Emily Anne EpsteinPoliticians 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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06/13/2012 4:05:48 PM PDT · by Third Person · 76 replies Daily Mail UK ^ | June 13, 2012 | Emily Ann EpsteinPoliticians are calling for a boycott of HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones because of 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 barely recognizable impaled on a wooden spike, covered in filthy long hair and slathered in dirt. But 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. The finale of the first season of Game of Thrones, Fire and Blood,... |
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Remember their reaction to a 'bulls-eye' on a Palin map? Or the smallest of slights to a gay person? But for us? The most extreme hate is always right below the surface...
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