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Game of Thrones Showrunners Apologize For Putting George W. Bush’s Head on a Spike

With a speedy apology following a half-day bloguproar, you can bet that the folks running HBO’s of Game of Thrones totally regret impaling the 43rd president’s head on a spike. Or at least, regret saying it was him on a DVD commentary track. ”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… 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,” showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said in an apology statement picked up by The Hollywood Reporter’s Lesley Goldberg. “We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.” 

Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: HBO]