George Bush was the president of the United States, and now he's an unwitting TV star. That's because the likeness of the younger Bush can be seen in the show Game of Thrones - and Republicans are none too happy about how he's portrayed. In the DVD commentary of the show, show creators explain how they created a beheading scene in the season one finale. The character of King Joffrey shows Sansa Stark a row of traitors' heads on pikes, and one looks awfully familiar. "People may not have noticed this but back up...the last head on the left is George Bush," show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explain during the DVD commentary. "George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes." Creators hadn't lost their heads; they have a simple explanation - there just weren't enough noggins to go around. "It's not a choice. It's not a political statement. It's just...we had to use what heads we had lying around," they said. Naturally, Republicans want heads to roll for the gaffe. Chairman of the Brooklyn Republican party Craig Eaton told E! Online, "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," Eaton said, "Americans of all political persuasions should stand up and demand that things like this should not continue. They should boycott watching this particular show." TMZ reports that the Benioff and Weiss have faced so much flack that they issued the following joint statement: "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. We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise." HBO also issued an apology, saying the scene was in "bad taste" and promising to remove it from future DVD releases.

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