The creators of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” assured the world recently that it was purely non-political when a likeness of President George W. Bush’s head was shown severed and mounted on a stick in the show.
“We just had to use whatever heads we had lying around,” they said in a commentary, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Mm hmm. Right. Why would anybody dream such a thing was deliberate? The very idea.
Soooo, was it also non-political when filmmakers produced a movie — “Death of a President” — during the Bush administration which practically fantasized about the prospect of his being gunned down?
And is it strictly non-political that many self-styled tolerant liberals consider an Iraqi man something of a folk hero after he narrowly missed hitting Bush in the head when he slung his shoes at the president in Baghdad in 2008?