Leftist Media Bias of the Day

From a May 1st Associated Press story on the retirement of Justice Souter:

Souter was firmly among the court's liberals. . .

Of the justices who occupied the high court's middle ground, Souter was the one most likely to challenge, in exchanges of written opinions, the aggressively conservative views of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Notice that "liberal[]" = "middle ground"?

BTW, even the New York Times rates Souter the third most liberal current Justice.

(via The Corner, TigerHawk)