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 | August 21, 2015
Who got to Donny Deutsch? Seriously. Exactly one week ago, Deutsch was painting a very dark picture for Hillary Clinton, saying that "Americans are just tired of Hillary," they have "fallen out of like with her,"  and that people he knows who would automatically be Hillary backers are saying "wow, there's got to be somebody else here." But there was Deutsch on Morning Joe today, singing a very…
MarkF | August 20, 2015
This NewsBuster was gobsmacked yesterday by the spectacle of senior Hillary aide Jennifer Palmieri suggesting that the FBI would be happy to discover that the infamous email server has been scrubbed clean. We wrote about it here. Today's Morning Joe picked through the smoldering ashes of that interview with the participation of John Heilemann, who conducted it.  Joe Scarborough said that "…
MarkF | August 19, 2015
We are now officially in Hillary-in-Wonderland world . . . A senior Hillary aide has suggested that the FBI would be happy to discover that the infamous email server was wiped clean. Appearing on today's With All Due Respect, Jennifer Palmieri--Communications Director for Hillary's campaign--claimed that finding that the server was wiped is "the outcome they would want."
MarkF | August 19, 2015
If this were anyone but a Clinton, would her campaign not be completely kaput?  Imagine: you're a big Dem donor, elected official in an early primary state or grassroots organizer trying to decide whose bandwagon to jump on.  You turn on Morning Joe today, and there's Ron Fournier, an MSM member-in-good-standing and someone who's said he's voted for Clintons more than anyone in DC, saying about…
MarkF | August 19, 2015
If this were anyone but a Clinton, would her campaign not be completely kaput?  Imagine: you're a big Dem donor, elected official in an early primary state or grassroots organizer trying to decide whose bandwagon to jump on.  You turn on Morning Joe today, and there's Ron Fournier, an MSM member-in-good-standing and someone who's said he's voted for Clintons more than anyone in DC, saying about…
MarkF | August 18, 2015
Well, Al Hunt did stop short of predicting something so horrible it could never happen in America--  federal marshals armed with assault weapons hunting down children cowering in closets to forcibly return them to a Communist dictatorship. Oh, wait, that really did happen, under President Bill Clinton, when Elian Gonzalez was returned to Cuba at the point of a gun.  On today's Morning Joe an Al…
MarkF | August 17, 2015
You know those super-fast-talking disclaimers run at the end of some ads?  The kind of CYA things the lawyers force the advertisers to say? That's what Mark Halperin's pro forma praise of Hillary on today's Morning Joe brought to mind.  Halperin first ripped Hillary's campaign as the most "unresponsive to basic questions" he's ever dealt with, and reported that "elite Democrats" are worried…
MarkF | August 17, 2015
You know those super-fast-talking disclaimers run at the end of some ads?  The kind of CYA things the lawyers force the advertisers to say? That's what Mark Halperin's pro forma praise of Hillary on today's Morning Joe brought to mind.  Halperin first ripped Hillary's campaign as the most "unresponsive to basic questions" he's ever dealt with, and reported that "elite Democrats" are worried…
MarkF | August 15, 2015
How about "angry and lame?"  After playing a clip of Hillary in Iowa yesterday in which she addressed the email scandal and took a shot at Donald Trump, MSNBC's Richard Wolffe, sitting in for Steve Kornacki, called her comments "feisty and funny." Have a look at judge for yourself. There's a difference between feisty and angry.  As for funny, Rodney Dangerfield can sleep easy in comedy's Elysian…
MarkF | August 14, 2015
The blog brought to you by Orville Redenbacher . . . One short segment on today's With All Due Respect packed plenty of explosive commentary.  There was John Heilemann saying that Al Gore "hates" Hillary and that if he gets in the race would be a "huge" problem for her. Lending credence to Heilemann's "hates" claim is the fact that he mentioned having "spent a lot of time" with Gore in 2006.  …