Mark Finkelstein
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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 | March 11, 2015
On his MSNBC show, trying to explain away a poll showing Fox News to be the most trusted national news network, Chris Hayes aruges the poll was unfair since Fox was the only conservative outlet, versus MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS.  Hayes analogized things to a poll in which Mike Huckabee was placed against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry and Al Gore.  Huckabee would…
MarkF | March 11, 2015
On the Ed Show,  Barbara Boxer claims Republicans are going after Hillary "because they know she's exciting the public."  Right.  For good measure, Boxer said that she "unequivocally" trusts Hillary.   David Corn is surprisingly skeptical, saying that "whether Barbara Boxer trusts her or not," Hillary critics have a point because she "tainted the chain of custody."
MarkF | March 10, 2015
Which was the bigger insult to Hillary: that there might have been hanky-panky with her handling of her email, or that she's a huge Barry Manilow fan? On With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin mocks Hillary's decision to delete thousands of supposedly personal emails: "was she running out of server space because she was, like, downloading every Barry Manilow song?" John Heilemann was equally…
MarkF | March 10, 2015
On MSNBC's Daily Rundown, Washington Post reporter Ishaan Tharoor, says that "it is the president who ratifies treaties."  
MarkF | March 9, 2015
On With All Due Respect, Campbell Brown says she can't imagine Dennis Miller replacing Jon Stewart as host of the Daily Show: "hasn't he gone right wing?" asks Brown.  John Heilemann agrees: "that will never work.
MarkF | March 8, 2015
On Up With Steve Kornacki, conservative pundit Ben Domenech says "the only person I think who could Hillary Clinton is Michelle Obama."
MarkF | March 7, 2015
On Steve Kornacki's MSNBC show, David Corn says that the Hillary camp, in a "defensive crouch" over the email issue, have told him and other members of the press things that "are not true."
MarkF | March 6, 2015
On Ed Schultz's MSNBC show, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, says that people don't care about the Hillary email story and that it is "a lot ado about nothing."
MarkF | March 6, 2015
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says of Hillary's handling of email: "this wasn't honest."  She also admits that if it were Dick Cheney instead of Hillary, "I'd go crazy." Lawrence O'Donnell admits that Hillary's email system "was set up obviously to defy the Freedom of Information Act."
MarkF | March 5, 2015
What's wrong with this picture: Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist being tougher on Hillary than ostensible Republican Nicolle Wallace? On  Morning Joe, former W aide Wallace says that Hillary would wind up releasing all her emails and they would turn out to be "wedding stuff." Mika had blasted Hillary for setting up her own servers, and Geist gently pointed out that since Hillary didn't have an…