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 | October 27, 2010
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough sarcastically says he "hopes Sarah Palin is proud of herself" for promoting candidates like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, thereby killing the GOP's chance of capturing the Senate majority.
MarkF | October 26, 2010
On Hardball, Chris Matthews says that the incident outside the Kentucky senate debate in which an apparent Rand Paul supporter put his foot on the head of an anti-Paul demonstrator and shoved "reminds me of the 30s in another country."
MarkF | October 25, 2010
On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz takes the side of management against "problem worker" Juan Williams: "when you fire somebody, it's over, move on."
MarkF | October 22, 2010
On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz claims that NPR is "as down the middle as you can get."
MarkF | October 22, 2010
On MSNBC, Norah O'Donnell claims NPR receives only 1-3% of its budget from the federal government. The actual percentage would appear to be about double that much.
MarkF | October 18, 2010
In an MSNBC "Lean Forward" promo, Ed Schultz asks "why are we letting the top 2% of the population win over the other 98?"
MarkF | October 18, 2010
In the course of little over a minute, Mike Barnicle makes two blunders on Morning Joe, stating that Al Gore, Sr. represented Kentucky [not Tennessee] in the Senate, and predicting that Mike "Blumenthal," not Bloomberg, would run for president.
MarkF | October 15, 2010
On his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz used the "lean forward" phrase, from the new series of MSNBC promos, in urging "base Democrats" to go to the polls to defeat Republicans and support President Obama's agenda.
MarkF | October 14, 2010
On Morning Joe, MSNBC correspondent Norah O'Donnell refers to Christine O'Donnell as a "freak show."
MarkF | October 12, 2010
Whoopi Goldberg appears on Morning Joe to promote her book bemoaning the decline of civility. But The View co-host recently told people opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque to "kiss my butt."