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 | September 24, 2012
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell gushes over Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader turned President of Egypt.  Mitchell enthusiastically reports that visiting American business execs found that he sounded "like a Western European leader," and Mitchell claims that "there's a lot of hope about what Morsi represents."  Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations suggests that Morsi is…
MarkF | September 18, 2012
On Ed Schultz's MSNBC show, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, commenting on the flap over Mitt Romney's remarks about the 47%, suggests that Romney sees himself as one of the "ubermenschen."
MarkF | September 17, 2012
On her MSNBC show, reacting to a clip in which Rick Santorum tells the Value Voters Summit audience that "we will never have the elite, smart people on our side," Andrea Mitchell asks a former Santorum aide: "what does he mean by the 'elite smart people'?  I think I should plead guilty."
MarkF | September 14, 2012
Appearing on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show, Jon Huntsman says there is "a lot to the criticism" Mitchell made, in the form of a laughably-loaded question, of Mitt Romney's response to the Obama administration's handling of the embassy attacks.
MarkF | September 14, 2012
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says Mitt Romney "didn't allow" the MSM to cover the failure of the Obama administration to heed security warnings regarding the planned attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of four Americans including the US ambassador to Libya.
MarkF | September 12, 2012
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle says the Department of Justice should consider viewing Florida pastor Terry Jones as an "accessory" in the death of the US ambassador to Libya.
MarkF | September 10, 2012
On Morning Joe, reacting to a video clip in which Mitt Romney describes Clint Eastwood as having spoken from "the heart" in his RNC speech, Joe Scarborough says that Eastwood was instead speaking from "the bottom of a bottle," i.e, was drunk.
MarkF | September 8, 2012
On the Today show, John Harwood, CNBC's chief Washington correspondent, claims that Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention was "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney."
MarkF | September 7, 2012
On Morning Joe, a clip from John Kerry's DNC speech shows a woman fast asleep, while an audience member on the Morning Joe set sleeps during an extended segment.
MarkF | September 6, 2012
On Morning Joe, Mark Halperin says there is no liberal media bias in saying that the story of the attempt by the Democrats to remove the mention of God and of Jerusalem as Israel's capital from its platform is "just about done."