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Swordgate: The Battle For Your Mind Is . . . Um . . . Meh

1/15/2016

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PictureRory MacNeil made this, whatever it is.
I was out on a trip today, so I couldn't pay much attention to #Swordgate. It looks like another sword has surfaced and several Canadian newspapers have now run yesterday's Chronicle Herald story about the government of Nova Scotia becoming interested in the "Roman sword." I hope to have time to write something new tomorrow -- I've got what I think are some interesting insights from the California sword.

I wanted to add to a piece that Jason Colavito wrote today about a recent audio rant by J. Hutton Pulitzer complaining about "media bias" against him and his history-changing "Roman sword." The rant was a reaction to a recent (and fairly unflattering) piece by Mike Gorman in Nova Scotia's Frank Magazine. Pulitzer lets us hear part of a conversation with Gorman in which Gorman seems to be unwilling to listen to him, and, in fact, repeatedly hangs up on him.

I think it's kind of funny, but maybe that's just me.

But was Pulitzer really so rudely prevented from telling his side of the story?  

I don't know the full context of the excerpted interview, but I can tell you that the Pulitzer-Gorman conversation didn't have anything to do with the "Roman sword."  In fact, the conversation took place sometime around a year ago in connection with a piece Gorman was writing about the claim that the Spear of Destiny had been found on Oak Island (sure, let's just go ahead and call it Speargate).  

I don't think Pulitzer ever directly said that the fragment of the Gorman conversation was related to the sword story, but he sure didn't do anything to clarify that it wasn't, either.  The way he spliced it into the piece leaves the impression that it was a recent conversation.  So, just to be clear . . . fill in the blank with the usual.

On Facebook today, Mike Gorman wrote the following about the fragment of conversation that Pulitzer released:

"This is the end of a series of calls between myself and Philyaw. By this point he was repeatedly calling the newsroom in an effort to have the spear story scrubbed, himself originally playing a larger part, with details given in the story at the time of his history. Uninterested in hearing every excuse under the sun and having asked my questions many times, I cut the calls off. At no point did Philyaw respond to inquiries regarding the sword. There's really nothing else to say about it."

​So there you go.

8 Comments
Peter Geuzen
1/15/2016 06:18:34 pm

DIBS on checking behind my couch cushions for the Spear of Destiny. DIBS on checking my junk drawer for the 90 Foot Stone.

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Killbuck link
1/15/2016 06:54:57 pm

Too late, I found the Spear of Destiney in my glove compartment the other day. But I'll be selling replicas on Ebay soon so we all can have one.

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Killbuck
1/15/2016 08:48:23 pm

Interesting. I just saw the promotional video for the next episode of The Curse of Oak Island, and it makes no mention at all of The Sword. The promo video was posted this am on the show's fb page.

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Jonathan Feinstein
1/16/2016 05:02:30 am

I found this description of the next episode:

"After getting lab results concerning the mysterious Roman sword, Rick, Marty and the team get together with a pair of treasure hunters who believe the Oak Island treasure lies north of the Money Pit."

Sounds to me like they'll be dropping the sword pretty quickly and moving on to the next theory.

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ghettohillbilly1
1/16/2016 04:35:13 am

I'm glad you got a laugh about the Frank interview as it is funny, he doesn't realize frank is nova scotia's tabloid/scandal magazine but thinks it reports on movies tv and local nightlife, they will run just about anything as a story, for them to repeatedly hang up on him was priceless, i even said so in the sound cloud comments...I wonder if he has deleted them yet?keep up the good work I'm now following you and Jason closely on this subject as i find it quite entertaining

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Rose McDonald
1/20/2016 12:39:55 pm

I challenged the "Spear of Destiny" story last year when I read about it on one of Pulitzer's many web sites. (I think it's been shut down) So now P is trying to have his story about the spear scrubbed. Does anyone wonder why? It has to be really tough to have to deal with all those picky people who want proof.
In a way I'm relieved that the real Jovan is being revealed, and maybe that's the most important "Big Reveal" of the whole Oak Island fiasco.

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Bob Jase
1/16/2016 09:52:52 am

I found the Spear of Destiny yesterday while grocery shopping. It was in a package of asparagus.

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Andy White
1/16/2016 09:54:15 am

Stop. It's too sexy.

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