While focusing on the phenomenon of "misinformation in the media landscape," television journalist Chuck Todd stirred up a hornet's nest on Sunday when he equated Trump supporters with those that believe "fairy tales and lies."

To make matters worse, the NBC anchor then slandered those that believe in the story of Noah's Ark, which is present in the Christian New Testament, the Hebrew Torah, and also the Islamic Quran.

From Fox News:

NBC News anchor Chuck Todd is facing heavy backlash for suggesting that Trump voters "want to be lied to" since they believe in "fairy tales" -- like Noah's Ark.

On Sunday's installment of "Meet the Press," Todd spent much of the show focused on the spread of "misinformation" in the media landscape. But, during a panel discussion, he pointed to a letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader from last January, something Todd thought was a "fascinating attempt" to explain why so many Americans support President Trump.

The letter read, "[W]hy do people support Trump? It's because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales... This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good... The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel... Show me a person who believes in Noah's ark and I will show you a Trump voter."

More surprising than the vicious comments towards religious Trump supporters was Todd's timing- his harsh words came within hours of an attack from a man who hacked up Jewish people of faith with an 18-inch machete during a Hanukkah celebration. 

The backlash was swift and fierce, fueling even more support for Trump from religious communities.

From Red State:

This is what most of the legacy media think of religious Americans, i.e. that we are just simpleton peons who believe silly stories. If only we were all on Chuck Todd’s level of brilliance, able to sit in a chair, read off a teleprompter, and host insane rants about the President.

It’s been said before, but this is why Trump won. The beltway elitist sneering at people who just want to live their lives and worship God how they want turns off vast swaths in the middle of the country. This garbage may play in Brooklyn, but people elsewhere hate it.

For Todd to do this segment while Orthodox Jews are still lying in hospital beds with stab wounds is just disgusting. Trump has broken these people and one day I think they are going to regret how absolutely ridiculous they became in response to his presidency.

The backlash on Twitter was just as severe, with many pointing out that the "misinformation" came from outlets like the one Chuck Todd hails from, such as the tweet below:

The fairy tales Chuck Todd told us for years about the Steele dossier have more to do with media distrust than Noah's Ark.

And what about Noah's Ark? 

Just because liberal atheists refuse to acknowledge the ancient wooden structure resting at the top of Mt. Ararat in Turkey doesn't mean that it isn't there.

Even National Geographic had to acknowledge the ancient remains after a Christian team was able to film the site and document their discovery of  "seven large wooden compartments buried at 13,000 feet (4000 meters) above sea level, near the peak of Mount Ararat" in 2009.

From National Geographic:

Many Christians believe the mountain in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's ark, which the Bible says protected Noah, his family, and pairs of every animal species on Earth during a divine deluge that wiped out most of humanity.

"The structure is partitioned into different spaces," said Noah's Ark Ministries International team member Man-fai Yuen in a statement. "We believe that the wooden structure we entered is the same structure recorded in historical accounts. ... "

The team says radiocarbon-dated wood taken from the discovery site—whose location they're keeping secret for now—shows the purported ark is about 4,800 years old, which coincides roughly with the time of Noah's flood implied by the Bible.

So is it really so far-fetched to have a "fairy tale" with actual evidence? Compare that with the Steele dossier that was based on nothing.

Which one is easier to believe?