Mark Ndesanjo – Is the Times newspaper trying to start something out of nothing?

One of the headlines on the Times newspaper today reads -

Barack Obama’s brother pushes Chinese imports on US

The article is about Barack Obama’s half-brother, Mark Ndesanjo, who lives and works in China.

Fair enough, you’d think because if a person decides he wants to occupy what is probably the highest office in the whole world, people have a need to know what his or her background is.

So I quickly ran through the article looking for the bombshell and what did I find?

Obama’s brother designs websites for Chinese companies in English. The article then shamelessly makes the assumption that because the US has the largest number of English speakers, and Ndesanjo’s internet company is helping them target this customer base, he is therefore pushing cheap chinese imports into the US contracdicting what his brother has said about cheap chinese imports.

What a crapshoot !

Well, how about the prediction that India will have more English speakers than the US by 2010 or that the number of English speakers in the rest of the world is more than double the number of English speakers in the US?

With headlines like these;

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it is abundantly clear the Rupert Murdoch News Corp spin machinery (The Times is a News Corp property) is already busy at work digging Obama’s background to find any slime that will stick, factual or not.

We are bracing for a rough ride ahead folks.