Our weekly look at the loudest screech from the mainstream media features NBC political director Chuck Todd dissing Rasmussen Reports, the big polling firm that was among the closest to call the the 2008 presidential election correctly.

On Wednesday’s Squawk Box on CNBC, Todd said: “We spend a lot more money polling than Scott Rasmussen does. We spend a lot more money on quality control….I hate the idea that their [NBC News/Marist] polling, which is rigorously done, has to get compared to what is, in some cases, you know, slop.”