The last segment of the March 3rd, 2006 John Carlson show was devoted to a discussion of how the American public is so poorly informed about the President's plan to turn several US ports over to a corporation owned by the United Arab Emirates. John stated that as he's become more educated about the port issue, he's more and more in favor of it. And just to drive home his previous discussion of how bad US car companies are, he make the following statement:

JOHN CARLSON: There is no American company big enough to do this, to assume operation of uh, terminal operations of six major US ports. There's only a few firms that can do it, and they're all foreign.

Evidently John's education isn't quite complete. It seems he overlooked SSA Marine, a very large American company that operates 57 terminals around the US, and 8 terminals overseas. Even more embarrassing is the fact that this company has their headquarters just a couple of miles away from John's broadcast booth.

It's such a shame that talk show hosts have such uninformed opinions.