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 | February 9, 2012
Appearing on The Ed Show, Martin Bashir claims most evangelicals share Mark Twain's view that the Book of Mormon is "chloroform in print."
MarkF | February 8, 2012
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, who has acknowledged receiving White House talking points on the controversy surrounding the Obama administration's attempt to force Catholic institutions to offer contraceptives and other services that violate their religious precepts, appears to consult her cell phone before awkwardly stating that "the Catholic hierarchy is male."
MarkF | February 6, 2012
On Morning Joe, liberal Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein argues that quintessential big government programs like massive involvement in the housing finance and the imposition of a carbon tax aren't "progressive" but simply "good policy."
MarkF | February 6, 2012
On Morning Joe, after Mark Halperin cites an ABC/Washington Post poll with many findings favorable to President Obama, Joe Scarborough facetiously asks "does [Obama adviser David] Axelrod poll for ABC?"
MarkF | February 3, 2012
On Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, soon to host her own MSNBC show, uses a combination of euphemisms to describe abortion.
MarkF | February 1, 2012
In an MSNBC "Lean Forward" promo, Ed Schultz says those "standing up to the president" are "bullies."
MarkF | January 26, 2012
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Howard Dean have a heated exchange on the issue of education reform, with Dean defending teachers unions and Democrats and Scarborough accusing them of thwarting education reform on every occasion.  At one point, after Dean says he needs to take Scarborough on a tour of America's schools, Scarborough says "I do not need lectures from you on education reform."
MarkF | January 25, 2012
On Ed Schultz's MSNBC show, former Dem congressman from Florida claims that Newt Gingrich is running "the most overtly racist campaign" since George Wallace.
MarkF | January 25, 2012
In an MSNBC promo for his show, Al Sharpton says tax cuts for the rich are unacceptable, just as forcing blacks to the back of the bus and denying women the vote were acceptable until people started protesting.
MarkF | January 24, 2012
On Morning Joe, responding to New York magazine reporter John Heiiemann's question as to why he didn't correct a town hall questioner who called President Obama an avowed Muslim who is legally unqualified to be president, Rick Santorum says "it's your responsibility to defend the president, not mine."  Santorum also emphatically says he is nothing like John McCain when Heilemann mentions that as…