Newsweek Reporter Andrew Whalen says Pizzagate has morphed into Q conspiracy theory

2-26-19

While checking out the anti-Q articles in Q2801, I ran into one just published yesterday in Newsweek. Like many articles on "rightwing conspiracy theories," it mentions both Qanon and Pizzagate together. This is a common tactic used by opposition reports: you juxtapose two things hoping readers will start to see them as the same thing. But this reporter goes further:

The Pizzagate theory continues to be propagated by far-right outlets online, premised on the idea that references to pizza in the leaked emails of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta are actually coded references to child sex slaves. Pizzagate has since morphed into the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that president Donald Trump is working in secret to overthrow a Satanic pedophile elite.

He says that Pizzagate has become the Q movement.

This crosses a red line. Deserves to be called out.

It also highlights Newsweek's very negative and persistent coverage of all things Q. Newsweek never misses a chance to show Q in a negative light. And this reporter Andrew Whalen has written at least 3 hit pieces on Q so far.

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Moar on the article:

'''Pizzagate Shooter Arrest Footage Shows Police Uncuffed Him in Public==

by Andrew Whalen

https://www.newsweek.com/pizzagate-shooter-debunked-conspiracy-theory-comet-ping-pong-elite-pedophile-1344748

More than a year ago, a group called "Reveal" asked DC police for bodycam footage of the arrest of Edgar Maddison Welch, the #Pizzagate shooter who shot out the server at Comet Pizza nn Dec 4, 2016. Newsweek is reporting here on the released video.

Excerpt:

“What were you doing in the location?” one officer can be heard asking Welch in the newly released footage.

“Making sure there’s nothing there,” Welch responds.

“Regarding what?” the officer asks him.

''“Pedophile ring,”'' Welch says.

While the questioning officer is taken aback by Welch’s response, the officer wearing the body camera can be heard explaining, “Pizzagate, he’s talking about Pizzagate.”

For moar, see Cap.

>>5437302

Another interesting thing about this Pizzagate arrest footage: the fact that the cops uncuffed suspected shooter Edgar Welch in public. That's not standard procedure, especially for a violent crime:

In another clip from the body camera footage, Welch can be seen calmly talking with an officer beside the open door of a departmental SUV. The officers on the scene had removed Welch’s handcuffs and he stands with his hands on his hips in a casual pose. The Metropolitan Police Department’s General Orders state that officers are not to remove handcuffs on arrested persons “until the prisoner is in a secure area."

Despite the headline of the article–which refers to this uncuffing–this passage is at the end of the article, not the beginning. The reporter never questions why the suspect was uncuffed. Did they somehow know he wasn't dangerous?