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 20, 2014
Rahm Emanuel repeatedly insults Chuck Todd on the MSNBC show that the latter hosts.
MarkF | March 20, 2014
Morning Joe devotes the first hour-and-forty-three minutes of its show to speculation about MH-370.  Madeline Albright eventually comes on and suggests that the situation with Russia is the much more important story.
MarkF | March 18, 2014
In a promot for his MSNBC show, Chris Hayes says that he's there "to do politics, not talk about it."
MarkF | March 13, 2014
On Morning Joe, NBC political director Chuck Todd mocks Dem spin over their loss of the special election this week in Florida's 13th congressional district.
MarkF | March 12, 2014
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski describes how 25 years ago, the son of the President of Lebanon took her "hostage" in the south of France, taking her to porn flicks and buying her bikinis with only one piece.  She also tells Joe Scarborough that he should take her to the south of France and perhaps take her shopping.
MarkF | March 10, 2014
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle calls Sarah Palin a "moron," and Mika Brzezinski later calls her a "multi-million dollar moron."
MarkF | March 7, 2014
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says that members of the millenial generation volunteer to serve in the military "if they need the money."
MarkF | March 1, 2014
Good Morning America buries the story about the Ukraine, then claims that President Obama issued a "harsh warning" to Russia over possible military intervention.
MarkF | February 28, 2014
On his MSNBC show, Ronan Farrow laughs nervously as he asks an African-American guest whether, in assessing movie-industry diversity, it "matters" that the black director whose film has been nominated for an Oscar is British.
MarkF | February 21, 2014
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski criticizes those who are "making a lot of money" at the Olympics in Russia while Vladimir Putin suppresses democracy in the Ukraine, Syria and Iran.  She mentions "the people performing there, the people competing there, the people sponsoring there," but omits NBC, her own network that is broadcasting the Olympics and taking in millions from those sponsors.