Mark Finkelstein

Mark's undergrad degree is from Cornell. He has law degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Harvard. He practiced law in NYC, Mexico City, and Paris, before doing a stint as a pro tennis manager and tournament organizer. He returned to his college town of Ithaca, NY and got involved in real estate development and politics.

In 2011, Mark moved to Pecan Plantation, TX, and in 2018, to Oak Island, NC.

Mark's a dog lover who has used his small plane to do many dog-rescue flights. He speaks Spanish and French.
 

MarkF | May 22, 2025
On Morning Joe, NBC's Alice Barr, reporting on the murders of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the DC Jewish museum, says "Investigators are working to pin down whether this was a hate crime, or potentially, an act of terrorism."
MarkF | May 22, 2025
On CNN This Morning, CNN security analyst Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama DHS appointee, speaking of the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers outside an event at the DC Jewish museum, says: "We can't deny the suspect said 'Free Palestine.' He killed two Israelis. There may be either a hate crime or a federal crime."
MarkF | May 21, 2025
In a segment with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their book, Original Sin, of the cover-up of Biden's decline, Joe Scarborough finally admits, "I was obviously wrong" in claiming in March 2024 that this was the "best Biden ever," and "f-you if you can't handle the truth."
MarkF | May 20, 2025
On CNN This Morning, panelist Lulu Garcia-Navarro complains, saying "why not?", when fellow panelist Michael Warren of The Dispatch suggests it was a mistake for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to have publicly boasted of his hiring of blacks, which he called "our people," to senior positions in his administration.
MarkF | May 19, 2025
On Morning Joe, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a senior fellow at the leftist Center for American Progress, and an oncologist who was appointed by Presidents Obama and Biden to  advisory boards, says it would be "very troubling" if Biden's doctors administered a PSA prostate test, found elevated levels, and didn't report it to the public. Given that the cancer has metastasized, Emanuel says it is certain…
MarkF | May 18, 2025
On CNN's State of the Union, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) tells host Jake Tapper he continues to believe that Joe Biden would have been capable of serving out a second term, at which time he would have been 86 years old.
MarkF | May 17, 2025
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart dismisses former FBI Director James Comey posting a photo of 8647, which can be interpreted as a call to assassinate President Trump, as a "pseudo controversy."
MarkF | May 15, 2025
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish interviews Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League, regarding its publication of a book on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd. When Morial criticizes any corporate pullback from DEI efforts, calling it an "assault," Cornish sympathetically says that opponents of DEI 'are in control right now." That tees up Morial to say: "They are in…
MarkF | May 14, 2025
On Morning Joe, MSNBC commentator and Washington Post editor David Ignatius offers guarded praise for Trump's olive branch diplomacy with Iran, saying that Trump has "big ideas for change."
MarkF | May 12, 2025
On Morning Joe, describing President Trump's "amazing agenda" of diplomatic peace efforts around the world, MSNBC analyst David Ignatius of the Washington Post says there's "something to" the notion that Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize, noting that Trump's initiatives have been "generally positive."