Clay Waters

Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a division of the Media Research Center (MRC) that tracks the liberal bias of the New York Times. You can follow Times Watch on Twitter and Facebook.

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Cooper Suggests GOP's 'Hard-Line' on Immigration Could Win Arizona for Obama

Helene Cooper spreads hope for Obama in Arizona in 2012 thanks to the GOP's "hard-line stance" on immigration: "But the state's crackdown on illegal immigration has coincided with a boom in its ...

'Crate-Gate' Continues; Collins Calls Cain, Other GOP Candidates 'Nutjobs'

Gail Collins has now mentioned Mitt Romney's dog strapped to a crate on a car roof 28 times in columns. She also referred to Herman Cain and other GOP candidates as "nutjobs," while her ...

Stelter Hails OWS '99%' Slogan, Compares It To 'Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death'

Media reporter Brian Stelter embraces the OWS and its ubiquitous slogan, making audacious historical comparisons: "Slogans have emerged from American protest movements, successful and otherwise, ...

More NY Times Hypocrisy, Attacking Lauder for Using Tax Loopholes It Employs As Well

More hypocrisy at the Times, as the paper attacks wealthy heir Ronald Lauder for using tax avoidance strategies like trust funds, limited liability companies, and charitable giving, while the ...

NYT Covers Falling Tea Party Support, Ignores Polls Showing Sharp Downturn in OWS Appeal

New York Times reporter Kate Zernike devotes a story to a poll showing cooling Tea Party support, suggesting the group's "hard-line" and "extreme" stance was "dragging down" the GOP. Meanwhile, ...

More Times Hypocrisy, Attacking Lauder for Using Tax Loopholes It Itself Employs

More hypocrisy at the Times, as the paper attacks wealthy heir Ronald Lauder for using tax avoidance strategies like trust funds, limited liability companies, and charitable giving, while the ...

NYT Covers Falling Tea Party Support, Ignores Polls Showing Sharp Downturn in OWS Appeal

The Times' Kate Zernike devotes a story to a poll showing cooling Tea Party support, suggesting the group's "hard-line" and "extreme" stance was "dragging down" the GOP. Meanwhile, the paper has ...

Keller Mocks Bloggers,State Colleges, Claims 'Stimulus Created or Saved' 2 Million Jobs

Also, the former editor's crash course in economics comes up short: "The Web site PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-winning fact-checking service, recently did a thorough debunking of Republican claims ...

Great Minds Think Alike...So Do New York Times Columnists

Times columnists can't get enough of The Onion's humor: "Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job." Not as hard as coming up with new column ideas, apparently.

'Barney Frank, Moderate'

Discussing the retirement of the extremely liberal Mass. Democrat, former reporter David Firestone shows he has a sense of humor: "But economically, Mr. Frank is essentially a centrist."

Classy: Frequent NYT Book Reviewer Compares Tea Party to KKK

Professor Kevin Boyle in the NYTimes: "Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots ...

Classy: Frequent NYT Book Reviewer Compares Tea Party to KKK

Ohio State University professor Kevin Boyle: "Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots ...

Times Leaves a Lot Out of Profile of Inflammatory 'Occupy' Instigator Kalle Lasn

Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn is credited by the Times with branding and inspiring the Occupy movement. What reporter William Yardley left out: Lasn's authorship and the title of Adbusters notorious ...

NYT Sunday Mag: 'What if Our Kids Really Believed We Wanted Them to Have Great Sex?'

From explicit sex education, to praise for left-wing idol Elizabeth Warren, to another attack on fracking in Pennsylvania, the Sunday Magazine pushed liberalism from all angles this weekend.

Your Weekly Out-of-Nowhere Reagan-Bashing, Courtesy of the Sunday Review

Former poet laureate Robert Hass claims police brutality, then explains how it's all Reagan's fault: "Another of the contingencies that came to my mind was a moment 30 years ago when Ronald ...

The GOP vs. Public Opinion on the Necessity of Tax Hikes

Economics reporter Catherine Rampell traces the GOP's stubborn refusal to raise taxes back to the 1970s and the Laffer Curve.

With Boys on Girls Swim Team, NYT's Support for Gender Equity Takes a Sudden Dive

Karen Crouse on a Massachusetts rule allowing boys to compete on girls' swim teams: "With every stroke they take, the boys are displacing more than water. They could knock girls off the awards ...

'Balanced' Times 'Reporter' Kate Zernike Waxes Sarcastic on Tea Party 'Hearings'

Tea Party beat reporter Kate Zernike uses up her quote of sarcastic quotation marks in a story on an unofficial Tea Party hearing: "[Republican Sen. Mike] Lee promptly led the activists down the ...

Jodi Kantor's Latest Fawnathon Over Michelle Obama

More hard-hitting Times coverage of the First Lady: "In an administration in which so much has gone awry, Michelle Obama has become a dependable source of good news....Will the president's ...

NYT's Photo Propaganda for Occupy Wall Street

Fawning over nose-rings: "He was drawn to the diversity of his subjects: both vibrant characters and next-door-neighbor types."