[ProfoundMan]

The Dubai port deal was scuttled by talk radio

Uh, no. The Dubai ports deal was supported, or at least given a pass by many national talk show hosts, Rush chief among them. The deal was scuttled by opportunistic politicians like Schumer who saw the specious indignation of an uninformed public and grandstanded against the deal to enhance their "national security" credentials. Since it was, as you point out, to the detriment of a few "investment bankers", it was easy pickin's for the socialists.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

Would you allow a company from the Muslim world to operate American airports or airport security?

[muawiyah]

For the most part no one paid much attention to the ports deal once they found out it was about the sale of leases on a handful of gantry cranes and NOT about ports, i.e. entire Port of New York type situations, with tens of billions of dollars of real estate at stake.

Chucky Shumer and his running dog lackeys continued to stir the pot long after the truth was out.

Apparantly some Freepers never did catch onto the real story.

[ANGGAPO]

It wasn’t the deal that smelled; it was the perception of consorting with the enemy that did it in.