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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. At least that’s what the creators of HBO’s hit show “Game of Thrones” are insisting. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are adamant that a likeness of GW Bush’s head on a spike is not a political statement, but an honest mistake, claiming they put in a bulk order for some heads and GW just happened to be in the mix! OK, I guess we’ll take them at their word.
The two released a joint statement saying, “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. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush.”
They continued, “We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.”
HBO also released a statement saying, “We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it 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.”
