They Killed My Nigger George!

[Viking]

It seems that the end of last season's game of thrones there was one detail that the comitted fans missed.

They decapitated George W. Bush. 

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I have to say it. In the Game of Politics you either win or you die.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158950/Fury-HBOs-Game-Thrones-shows-President-George-W-Bushs-decapitated-head-impaled-STAKE.html

HBO forced to apologise after Game of Thrones showed President George W. Bush's decapitated head impaled on a STAKE
By EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN
PUBLISHED: 20:40 GMT, 13 June 2012 | UPDATED: 18:16 GMT, 14 June 2012

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.
HBO and the show's creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, have apologized for the incident.
Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss, who noted the appearance in the series' DVD commentary, insist it wasn't a political statement - just a prop.

HBO called the scene 'unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste.'
'We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production,' the company said in a statement to the MailOnline.
The creators said they regret pointing out that one of their prosthetic heads looked like the former president.
'We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can't afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk,' Messrs Benioff and Weiss said.

They insisted no one even noticed the head looked like Mr Bush until after they were done shooting the scene.
'We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise,' they added.
The finale of the first season of Game of Thrones, Fire and Blood, one of the series' beloved characters Ned Stark is beheaded by new king Joffrey for treason.
In one brutal scene, King Joffrey brings his bride-to-be to gaze upon the severed head of her father.
Sansa Stark refuses at first, but then looks up to see not only her father, but also George W. Bush.
The surprise sighting went largely noticed until a user on Reddit pointed out the presidential prop.

When the show's creators revisit the scene in the DVD commentary, they make sure viewers notice the former Head of State.

'People may not have noticed this but back up...the last head on the left is George Bush,' one says.
'George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes,' the other adds.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say it was no condemnation of Mr Bush and his policies.
'It's not a choice. It's not a political statement,' one says. 'It's just.. we had to use what heads we had lying around.'
Craig Eaton, chairman of the Brooklyn Republican Party, was disgusted by the former president's 'appearance' on the show.

'I think that it's despicable. As a country, Democrats, Republicans, we have to have respect for the office and the individuals,' Mr Eaton said to the Mail Online. 'Once we lose that respect, the United States looks weak.'
He continued: 'Think about what people outside the country think when they see how Americans are disparaging their own former presidents.'

Mr Eaton said that he's not familiar with the show, but that he doesn't have plans to tune in any time soon.

'Whether you like him or dislike him, whether you're of the same political persuasion or not, we still have to respect the office of the presidency and all of those who hold that presidency,' Mr Eaton said.
He said that even he would never condone President Barack Obama's head being impaled for a television show.
'Americans of all political persuasions should stand up and demand that things like this should not continue,' Mr Eaton said. 'They should boycott watching this particular show.'
When told that the creators of the show didn't mean to make a political statement, Mr Eaton said they should still be ashamed. ''It doesn't matter what their intent is,' he said.
'They didn't intend it to be political, but now that it is, they should remove it.'

[DGuller]

WTF?  The couldn't make the head on the stake look like GWB's head? 

[Viking]

WTF?  The couldn't make the head on the stake look like GWB's head? 

it's the "Lush in a ditch W." from the full set of full sized George W. Bush action figures that Cheney used when W. was on his long vacation.

[alfred russel]

As an aside, history has a lot of stories of heads being delivered as a message, mounted on pikes along a road, etc. Wouldn't the heads decompose? How could I know that the rotted thing on the end of a stick in the town square was that rebel guy from a few months back, and not just some random person?

[Viking]

As an aside, history has a lot of stories of heads being delivered as a message, mounted on pikes along a road, etc. Wouldn't the heads decompose? How could I know that the rotted thing on the end of a stick in the town square was that rebel guy from a few months back, and not just some random person?

they usually are tarred first to prevent decomposition. The origin behind the heads, pikes, walls tradition is the norse Nidstang or mockerypole where a horses head is placed on a pike and the pike planted outside the object of mockery's longhouse. Traditionally this resulted in the murderous combat within a few minutes so I don't think they originally used tar.

[DGuller]

As an aside, history has a lot of stories of heads being delivered as a message, mounted on pikes along a road, etc. Wouldn't the heads decompose? How could I know that the rotted thing on the end of a stick in the town square was that rebel guy from a few months back, and not just some random person?

they usually are tarred first to prevent decomposition. The origin behind the heads, pikes, walls tradition is the norse Nidstang or mockerypole where a horses head is placed on a pike and the pike planted outside the object of mockery's longhouse. Traditionally this resulted in the murderous combat within a few minutes so I don't think they originally used tar.

How do you know so much about Norse traditions? 

[alfred russel]

As an aside, history has a lot of stories of heads being delivered as a message, mounted on pikes along a road, etc. Wouldn't the heads decompose? How could I know that the rotted thing on the end of a stick in the town square was that rebel guy from a few months back, and not just some random person?

they usually are tarred first to prevent decomposition. The origin behind the heads, pikes, walls tradition is the norse Nidstang or mockerypole where a horses head is placed on a pike and the pike planted outside the object of mockery's longhouse. Traditionally this resulted in the murderous combat within a few minutes so I don't think they originally used tar.

There are some ancient stories of head deliveries--don't know about mountings though.

Would tarring leave the face recognizable?

[Caliga]

IIRC a lot of things resulted in murderous combat within a few minutes back in the good old days of Viking yore.   I always liked the fact that Eric the Red had to keep moving from place to place because he just couldn't avoid killing people every place he tried to settle.

[Eddie Teach]

How do you know so much about Norse traditions? 

Because they still practice them in Iceland.

[Lettow77]

 Thread title resulted in disappointment.

[grumbler]

As an aside, history has a lot of stories of heads being delivered as a message, mounted on pikes along a road, etc. Wouldn't the heads decompose? How could I know that the rotted thing on the end of a stick in the town square was that rebel guy from a few months back, and not just some random person?

The idea was to prove to everyone that the deceased was, indeed, dead, and thus to prevent impersonations later down the road.  Everyone targeted would see the heads in the first day or so; leaving them to rot was just simple spite.  Someone coming along weeks or months later wouldn't be able to recognize the head, but that was immaterial; they would be outsiders whose opinions didn't matter, or they would be locals who had been away, and all their neighbors could confirm the identity of the behead.

[Neil]

Leave it to Republicans to overreact.  They're just as bad as Democrats when it comes to not having a sense of humour.  Bush probably would have a laugh at the whole thing.

[Maximus]

Doesn't look like him at all. I can think of at least 2 people offhand who look more like that head than GWB does.

[Drakken]

I doubt it is him, he is already wanted for a murder covered on Unsolved Mysteries. Was GWB in Los Angeles during the late 80s? 

[Habbaku]

I posted this in the GoT thread where it belongs.