Q is in the House
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Dan talk to Marley Clements, a documentary filmmaker whose three-part Vice series QAnon: The Search for Q (with Bayan Joonam) is an in-depth investigation into the origins, operations, and leadership structure of the QAnon movement. Before that, Yahoo News reporter Jon Ward joins to about the House vote to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene — no stranger to QAnon —of committee assignments.
GUESTS:
- Jon Ward (@jonward11), Senior Political Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Marley Clements, documentary filmmaker, Vice
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- QAnon: The Search for Q, Vice on TV
- "Dark to Light with Frank and Beanz", episode with Patrick Byrne (Dec. 21, 2020)
- "How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked QAnon" by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, NBC News (Aug. 2018)
- Mike Flynn's "army of digital soldiers" speech (Nov. 12, 2016)
- "A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon" by Reed Berkowitz (Sep. 2020)
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| 0:00.0 | The thing that everybody points to when it comes to Flynn's involvement is the oath. |
| 0:05.0 | Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. |
| 0:08.0 | And I will support and defend. I will support and defend. |
| 0:11.0 | But then at the end of it, he signed off with where we go when we go off. |
| 0:15.0 | Where we go when we go off. |
| 0:17.0 | And so immediately a dog whistle to the Q community. |
| 0:20.0 | I think that's actually just like a whistle. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | This signified a turning point for the movement. |
| 0:25.0 | Surges for Q spiked shortly after Flynn took the oath, which led millions of others to wonder if there might be actual military intelligence behind Q. |
| 0:33.0 | That's an excerpt from the search for Q, a fascinating new documentary by two bison news correspondents into the origins of the bizarre conspiracy cult known as Q and on. |
| 0:46.0 | The reporters explore a Byzantine labyrinth of internet trolls and right wing cranksters. |
| 0:52.0 | Even a former CIA spy turned arch conspiracy theorist in their quest to find who and what is behind a cult whose devotees actually believe a deep state cabal of Satan worshipers and pedophiles are secretly manipulating the levers of power in Washington. |
| 1:09.0 | But nothing leads to more starkly in their investigation on the curious role of Donald Trump's former national security adviser. |
| 1:17.0 | Michael Flynn, who has actively promoted the Q and on cult at the same time he was helping to whip up the mob that stormed the capital on January 6th. |
| 1:26.0 | We'll talk to one of the vice correspondents who made the film Marley Clements and will bring you up to date on the house's extraordinary vote to strip one Q and on sympathizer congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green of her committee assignments on this episode of skullduggery. |
| 1:43.0 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. |
| 1:50.0 | I will to the best of my building. |
| 1:52.0 | Reserve, protect and defend. |
| 1:55.0 | Constitution of the United States. |
| 1:57.0 | So help me God. |
| 1:58.0 | So help you guys. |
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