This morning, NBC's Chuck Todd went on Morning Joe to continue his upbraiding of Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, who said on Fox News Sunday this past weekend that the mainstream media “hate” Sarah Palin and the Tea Parties. Todd expanded his critique of Sammon to Fox News in general, implying that the network has an “agenda” to “undermine the 90% of journalists who are just simply trying to cover stories out there,” adding: “It is a business for some media organizations to undermine the quote-unquote mainstream media because it's good for their business.”

Well, NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein was none too pleased with Todd's remarks, and seemed incredulous that Fox News would ever pursue a business agenda that sought to undermine their competition with accusations of bias:

Fox News has a business strategy of seeking to “undermine” the MSM by alleging that it has a liberal bias. That was the allegation that Chuck Todd made on Morning Joe today.

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Todd didn't indicate which media on the left are trying to undermine the MSM, but in the context it was clear that in speaking of media organizations on the right, he was accusing Fox News of trying to “undermine” the MSM for business purposes.

You know what? Finkelstein is right. Where in the world would Chuck Todd get the idea that Fox News uses accusations of left-wing bias to undermine their mainstream media competitors?

Oh, right...

For their part, NewsBusters lauded Fox News for the above advertisement, writing that it “point[s] a huge and unmistakably accusatory finger at its liberal competitors.”