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Call the chiropractors: It's journalistic limbo time again | Marvin Olasky

Read 'em and weep? every december the media Research Center sends a Christmas present in the form of a lengthy ballot to a few journalists and professors, charged with selecting from the hundreds of examples of liberal media bias those that particularly make us cry, laugh, or become slack-jawed.

Since it's best both to receive and to give, here are a few of my favorites, starting with Time Senior Writer Richard Lacayo's October 27 sow's-ear-to-silk-purse analysis of the Clinton fundraising tapes: "Put aside for a moment the questions about what was illegal and what was just unseemly, and the overall effect is oddly comforting. If nothing else, the tapes prove that the most powerful nation on earth can operate on autopilot while the president chases campaign money."