Mega-wealthy lawyer, businessman, and political backer Scott Rothstein called me last week and told me he was the "Jewish Avenger" and was out to destroy me.
​Rothstein wasn't joking; he was seething. He told me he was going
to sue me and my wife and bankrupt my household. Rothstein, the managing partner of the law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt & Adler, said he would throw all his legal might at me until I could never "participate in the journalism community again." He even said he was going to throw a news conference about me for the TV stations.
"Most people figure if you're left alone, you'll go away," Rothstein told me. "They figure they should let a sleeping dog lie. I like to jab the dog in the eye. And if it bites me, I'll jab its eye out."
Rothstein once told me he had 43 voices in his head, ranging from lawyers to businessmen to guys from the Bronx streets where he grew up. I felt like there were about five of the latter type on the phone line. It was sort of a phone-call version of being mugged by a gang of hooligans in Central Park.
...Much of the backlash flowing around the health care debate (or even tonight's election) is not really about healthcare - but more about a general sense that the average citizen is a pawn in a rigged game run by corporate special interests and a clueless Congress.
That anger and confusion can be useful to a soulless manipulator - like a Republican strategist, say.
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