Last time I checked (Iraq war), the order of conservative to liberal went something like this:

FOX
CNN
MSNBC
ABC
Guardian/all other euro newspapers

With ABC sort of aiming for the 'balanced' view, at least they were incredibly neutral for an American TV network during the war - I remember Peter Jennings criticizing Bush on a few occasions.

So my question is why would the conservatives string up their own people? Because in throwing CNN to the wolves on any journalistic ethics issues that seems to be what they're doing. I've almost never seen anything from CNN that makes me think of them as 'liberal', certainly.

--SB