Treating almost identical stories differently depending on the party of the target is but one of many ways that liberal media bias manifests itself.
Recently the Atlanta Journal-Constitution admitted it gave much more prominence to the Pat Robertson story (front page) compared to the Hillary Clinton and Ray Nagin stories (back pages) where all 3 basically said stupid things in public:
"When Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said two weeks ago that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was God's punishment for "dividing his land," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a front-page story. Yet when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin made inflammatory remarks during separate King Week observances this week, the AJC carried those stories inside the main news section.
Some readers were right to question this juxtaposition and AJC editors agree now that we probably overplayed Robertson's statements."
The AJC overplayed Robertson's statements because they have a liberal bias, plain and simple.
The bias of the "Al-Jazeera Constitution" (yes, I AM a Kimmer fan) is well known down here- I would no more expect the truth from this paper than I would the NYT.