Friday, June 15, 2012

"George W. Bush Beheaded on [HBO Series] Game of Thrones"! (Producers: "We Had to Use Whatever Head We Had Lying Around")...







No wonder that numbnut King Joffrey was so keen to order the now-infamous beheading near the end of Season 1!

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Posted by The Independent Rage

12 comments:

  1. Postscript: Yes, using the former president's dummy head as a beheading prop was crass and inappropriate. BUT I gotta say: When I first saw this week that pic (at the top) with the W head from the side with the Sean Bean long hair wigged on -- I laughed pretty fuckin' loud. I'm not even sure why. I just did. And it ain't easy to make me laugh, let me tell ya.

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  2. I think that HBO/the show's producers COULD have avoided any controversy if their story is true. If their story is true they could have put this head waaaay off to the side and NOT featured in in such an identifiable close up.

    If they were 'hard up for heads', fine. But putting this figure relatively prominently was SOMEONE'S CHOICE - above and beyond the simple lack of # of props.

    I believe that this act was in poor taste. I think that it was also political on the part of SOMEONE (producer? prop lead? stage hand? gaffer??) Who, I don't know, but political and intentional- YES. :|

    (I'll end with the requisite "If this had been a DEM's head we'd NEVER hear the end of it.)

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  3. Wow. That's a pretty bold move on GOT's part! I kinda feel bad for laughing, but you just gotta laugh, don't you?! haha!

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    1. Here's the thing: That head shot was actually IN Season 1 and it almost sounds like hardly anyone ever recognized it until the show's behind-the-scenes people just came out and said/admitted on a DVD special feature or something that they had used a W Bush head. Sounds like THEY created this whole controversy by commenting on a subject that hardly anyone was otherwise commenting upon. Hardly anyone had really noticed it otherwise, and wouldn't have in all likelihood, if those fools had opened their mouths! WHOOPS!

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    2. Thinking about it further, it's always possible the off-hand, unprompted admission about using a W head was completely calculated to drum up DVD sales. But my gut tells me no. These producer guys appear to have received a fairly sharp rebuke from HBO over the issue (why doesn't that hateful leftist Bill Maher ever get such a rebuke from HBO?), and those same producers must've known (unless they're fools) that right-wingers would come out of the woodwork on the issue once they made their admission. Besides, are very many people (who wouldn't otherwise) really going to go buy the DVD over THIS? The picture's already all over the Net for everyone to see. So I'll repeat: WHOOPS!

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  4. It's just so stupid! ha! I wonder if some heads rolled over this gaffe?! Pun intended =)

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  5. To use a word suggested by David in St Louis, I would not be surprised if a lowly "gaffer" had the gaffe blamed on him (after all, what do gaffers go around doing?). Put another way, bet the producers skated on this one by blaming it on the small-time working man. That would not surprise me at all. As I like say, we live in a world of Slime, on all sides and everywhere.

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  6. I hope not, poor gaffer =( Think GW even knows about this story? If he did, I bet he'd just laugh about it. I'm no big GW fan, as you know, but he always seemed to enjoy a good joke =)

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  7. I'm just rather amazed at HBO's feigned outrage over this, while that hateful Bill Maher never so much as gets a reprimand from the same premier cable giant for his radical leftist venom.

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  8. That does seem odd....wonder what's up with that?!

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  9. I can only speculate: Game of Thrones has a big mainstream audience, which HBO does not want to offend. Maher, in contrast, has a predominantly (and admittedly very large) leftist 20 percenter audience that not only appreciates, but expects, his brand of hateful spew -- so HBO remains silent on him.

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