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 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."
MarkF | August 29, 2012
Commenting on the incident in which Yahoo Washington bureau  David Chalian was heard on a hot mike saying that Mitt and Ann Romney were "happy to have a party with black people drowning," former Bush 43 press secretary Ari Fleischer says "it baffles me that somebody like that could even be hired in the first place."
MarkF | August 29, 2012
Jim Pinkerton of Fox News Watch says that part of the MSM's problem is that groups like NewsBusters are paying attention and "nailing them" when they let their liberal bias show.
MarkF | August 29, 2012
In an interview with NewsBusters, author and radio talk show host Michael Medved said that whereas there's not much "affection or respect" for President Obama in the White House press corps, they are still "ideologically committed to him."
MarkF | August 28, 2012
Tea Party leader and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe tells NewsBusters that the Tea Party's success has the MSM in a panic.