MSNBC Says 'Conservative' 10 Times as Much as 'Liberal' on Tuesday

Imagine campaign events happening in 22 states at the same time, and that at such contests, two liberals, two conservatives, and one moderate candidate are vying for the public's votes.

You would expect the words "liberal" and "conservative" to be equally interspersed in media coverage of these events if indeed press outlets were impartial, right?

Well, count MSNBC out of this logical calculus, for on Tuesday evening, the unabashedly left-leaning cable news network actually used the word "conservative" tens times as much as "liberal."

In fact, the actual tally for these descriptives during MSNBC's Super Tuesday primary coverage was (h/t NBer Gary Hall):

Liberal -- fifteen
Conservative -- 155

Now, for the cynical that might think anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann used the code word "progressive" to disguise the real political leaning of those they clearly esteem, this word only showed up once in the entire transcript.

[Taken alone; border line trivial. Taken in the context of the frequency with which labels are disproportionally (if not misleadingly) applied, it's pervasive, and part of the liberal media's subtle {and sometimes not} manipulation of language to political ends]

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[PS: Bernard Goldberg asked an interesting question last night: if Michael Savage, an ultra consecrative (i.e., wing-nut from the right) is too extreme and politicized to anchor a national newscasts, how is it that Keith Olberman, an equally extreme wing-nut from the left, is permitted to do so? rhetorical...]