Rob Sherman. Am interviewing the real, or at least one of the real, Rob Sherman(s) now. He says he has never heard of Alexis Debat. He has interviewed Barack Obama for the Rob Sherman show on WJJG (AM 1530), in Chicago. He says he has subscribed to the Chicago Tribune for twenty years and would have noticed if there was a reporter there with that name. "I am a big deal," Sherman tells me. "I am a major star. I would never do interviews for someone else. People fake things all the time. Look what Bush did to get us into Iraq."

Stranger and stranger.

As I sit here on the phone with him, Sherman is checking out the address on a fax Debat provided purporting to be from a 'Rob Sherman' who allegedly conducted his interview with Obama for a fee of $500. Sherman is saying there is a 173 E. Taylor Road in Lombard, IL. The number indicated on the fax is tel. (630) 598.2960. Sherman is saying "598" is a landline based in Downer's Grove. He's going to try to see what's going on and get back to me. He says he got a voice mail there. "If you'd like to leave a message," in a computer voice. Left a message.

Sherman does say he's been called three times in the past month by people trying to verify the truth of the matter. He says he didn't know they were. Major news operations. One from NY newspaper. One may have been from Washington Post. And one call from France. He doesn't recall if he got called by ABC.

"People fake stuff all the time," says Sherman.

Update: Rob Sherman of Buffalo Grove with the radio show emails to Debat, copying me:

I've received several inquiries from across the United States and also from France regarding a purported article that "Rob Sherman" supposedly wrote for you. I am the only prominent Rob Sherman in the Chicago area -- see my web site at www.robsherman.com - and, obviously, I've never heard of you nor worked with you regarding my friend, Barack Obama. In response to one reporter's inquiry, I've never worked for the Chicago Tribune, but they've written many stories about me (perhaps as many as 500 stories) in the past 20 years pertaining to my social activism. In addition, I do not now nor have I ever lived nor worked in Lombard, Illinois, which is about 15 miles from my home and office in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

What is all this stuff about?

Best regards,
Rob Sherman

Is there another Rob Sherman in Chicago who did do the interview with Obama?

And who did the interview with Greenspan that Debat published, which Greenspan tells Pascal Riche he did not provide?

More here.

Posted by Laura at September 13, 2007 11:04 AM