NBC’s Chuck Todd says Fox News trying to undermine the credibility of mainstream media. What credibility?

Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director and chief White House correspondent really didn’t like it when Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon appeared on Fox News Sunday and said, “…the mainstream media hates the tea party movement almost as much as it hates Sarah Palin.”

Now any rational person would say that statement is inarguable. Nevertheless, Todd chose to argue the inarguable on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Todd: We all know there are a lot of different ways people get news. And then you have straight journalists, you have activist journalists, you have opinion folks. And we know that they’re all out there. I think we believe here at NBC that people are smart enough to figure it out. And that’s why when a news executive goes out there and states a crazy accusation like that, that it ends up, it only ends up probably hurting what they’re trying to do, but it creates, it only denigrates all of us.

. . .

And I’m sorry, there is certain news organizations out here whose agenda is to undermine the 90% of journalists who are just simply trying to cover stories out there. And that’s what really frustrates me about what’s happened in the media landscape. It is a business for some media organizations to undermine the quote-unquote the mainstream media because it’s good for their business. And this is not just on the right, it’s happening on the left as well.

Pardon us while we laugh.

MSNBC is surely the wrong place to make this argument, Chuck. The ratings-challenged network is doing an admirable job undermining itself with absolutely no assistance from Fox.

Source: NewsBusters.org

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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  • Danbhoy,I used the name bsnbc in May of 2009 when i wrote a comment to an article on G.E. to the New York Times.They refused to print it.I believe it was because i spelled it out bull s_ _ _.

  • I had to play it back a couple times but this IDIOT said.....

    "There is certain new organizations out here......."

    WoW! Where did this genius go to school? Great use of the English language Todd.

    • I doubt it, but BSNBC is a joke. But as we know, not all jokes are funny. People who find BSNBC funny are laughing AT them, not WITH them.

  • Okay...

    This is the best example of "Truth Hurts". The truth does hurt and when it does people without wisdom nor humility lash out against those who speak the truth. It was true in ancient times, it is true now. All actions and words done and spoken by the MSM have proven their hatred of Fox News and the pundits there, Palin (and people like her), Conservatives, Christians, Independent voters and the Tea Party.

    The guy didn't even try to say that HE and others do not hate Palin and the Tea Party, he just wanted to lash out at the fact that the truth came out and that they were called on their hatred that they have very unsuccessfully tried to hide.

  • Todd: "I think we believe here at NBC that people are smart enough to figure it out."

    They have, Todd. Haven't you looked at your ratings lately?

  • I have a feeling that the MSM has been killing itself really, since the turn of the century. Bush vs Gore & it's aftermath started their slide, & the MSM has just decided they were going full speed ahead to the left & with the Dems. FoxNews never followed their path, but they have reported on how the MSM has reported things, & that's what F Chuck Todd has a problem with.

    It is suicide Chuck, not murder.

  • The problem with high horses, especially when already perched on shaky pedestals, is that when the merest breeze of real-life reality wafts by, those who have scrabbled up there don't half come across as chumps when they end up in an untidy pile at the base.

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