CNNW Smerconish September 27, 2014
Isis has impressed people the world over, not only with its lightning fast military gains in iraq and syria, but also its use of social media to spread its propaganda mission. This week on twitter, it released a second video from british hostage john cantlay. The presentation opens with the title lend me your ears with cantlay introducing himself as a longtime prisoner of the Islamic State who has been abandoned by his government. He proceeds to rail against the military campaign against isis. And isis through cantlay moves to support its argument using selected quotes from noted americans, in...