‘Daily Beast’ Editor: ISIS Beheadings Are Designed To Look Like ‘Game of Thrones’

"Well, I think it’s very dangerous. You described ISIS as a 'propaganda machine,' and that really is what it is, more than the land it’s taken, more than the city’s it’s taken. What it's doing is taking over the media war around the world and projects itself on a global stage, whether it’s on Twitter, other social media, and certainly it does so with the hideous videos, which are, let’s be clear - designed to watch and designed for people who would be completely repelled by, for instance, the decapitation that were shown ten years ago in Iraq. This — the Foley video, the Sotloff video, those are designed to look like something not so different than what you see on Game of Thrones, and that very smart of them and really something that we should not encourage, but I don't know how to avoid it."