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[I don't say the WSJ is liberal...]

You need to separate the WSJ news operation from their editorial board. The WSJ news operation is decidedly leftist, while the editorial board is conservative. Zogby is aligned with the WSJ news division, not the editorial side. This is a common misconception that the WSJ is a conservative news outlet, it is not. In fact, a 2004 study, "A Measure of Media Bias," by Tim Groseclose of the University of California, Los Angeles and Jeff Milyo of the University of Missouri, stated that:

"One surprise is the Wall Street Journal, which we find as the most liberal of all 20 news outlets [studied]. We should first remind readers that this estimate (as well as all other newspaper estimates) refers only to the news of the Wall Street Journal; we omitted all data that came from its editorial page. If we included data from the editorial page, surely it would appear more conservative. Second, some anecdotal evidence agrees with our result. For instance, Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid (2001) note that "The Journal has had a long-standing separation between its conservative editorial pages and its liberal news pages." Paul Sperry, in an article titled the "Myth of the Conservative Wall Street Journal," notes that the news division of the Journal sometimes calls the editorial division "Nazis." "Fact is," Sperry writes, "the Journal's news and editorial departments are as politically polarized as North and South Korea."

http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm

So do not confuse the conservative WSJ editorial division with its left wing news division, which the study found as the most left wing of ALL news outlets studied.