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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Nocera Surprise on Bork Anniversary: 'Democrats Can Be...Mean-Spirited and Unfair.'

Joe Nocera: "[Bork's] nomination battle is also a reminder that our poisoned politics is not just about Republicans behaving badly, as many Democrats and their liberal allies have convinced ...

NY Times Denies Broad Anti-Semitism at OWS; Quick to Uncover Racism During Tea Party Rallies

While the New York Times was hypersensitive to any signs of racial prejudice among the massive, peaceful Tea Party protests, reporter Joseph Berger raised and dismissed the idea of anti-Semitism ...

Times Denies Broad Anti-Semitism at OWS; Quick to Uncover Racism During Tea Party Rallies

Joseph Berger spins away accusations of anti-Semitism against OWS: "The Occupy Wall Street protests...have increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them politically ...

NYT's OWS Reporter Talks Shop With Radical Supporters, Pot-Shots Police

Lennard's comments, alternately post-modern and potty-mouthed, were peppered with potshots at the NYPD: "...one bloody face courtesy of New York's less than finest." Also, self-policing "is a risk ...

NYT's Collins Still Haunted by Romney's Crate-Gate - Mentions Dog-on-Roof Tale 23 Times

New York Times columnist Gail Collins is still "haunted by Seamus," the story of Mitt Romney's family dog strapped to the car roof in a crate, mentioning the infamous incident 23 times over four ...

Wall St.'s Candidate? Times Says Romney, But WP Says Obama Still Rules the Street

NYTimes: "Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street's top sources of donations for the two candidates." But "Those figures do ...

Paul Krugman's Big Wet Kiss to the Left: 'Thank You, OWS'

"Overall, what struck me was how non-threatening the thing is: a modest-sized, good-natured crowd, mostly young (it was a cold and windy evening) but with plenty of middle-aged people there, not ...

Gail Collins Still Haunted by Romney's Crate-Gate - Mentions Dog-on-Roof Tale 23 Times

Gail Collins is still "haunted by Seamus," the story of Mitt Romney's family dog strapped to the car roof in a crate, mentioning the infamous incident 23 times over four years of columns.

NYTimes Cites Cain Haters to Smear Him for Engaging in Black Stereotyping

Times reporter Susan Saulny: "And while his casual style of racially inflected humor works to ingratiate him with mostly white audiences at campaign rallies, it has angered some black critics, who ...

Times Still Hoping Border Fence Talk Will Alienate Hispanics, Spell Doom for GOP

The Times can always hope: "Today, Republican candidates are competing over who can talk the toughest about illegal immigration - who will erect the most impenetrable border defense; who will turn ...

Times Goes to Cain Haters West, Belafonte to Smear Him for Engaging in Black Stereotyping

Susan Saulny: "And while his casual style of racially inflected humor works to ingratiate him with mostly white audiences at campaign rallies, it has angered some black critics, who believe he ...

Hollywood Reporter Brooks Barnes on P.C. Patrol at the Movies

Brooks Barnes asks the important questions: "Over a two-hour dinner at a trendy restaurant here earlier this month, [Pixar founder and film director John Lasseter] was at turns solemn and ...

Times Credits Adbusters Mag With Launching OWS, Ignores Anti-Jewish Articles

Last year the Times sent a reporter to Idaho to produce a 4,500 word front-page hit piece on the Tea Party, inaccurately linking it to unsavory anti-government radicals. Yet the paper is not at ...

NY Times Again Goes After Personal Finances of Tea Party Favorite

Jennifer Steinhauer and Steven Yaccino: "But Mr. Walsh's own finances are not quite in step with the tight-ship budgeting he calls for in Washington. According to a lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, ...

OWS Like Tiananmen Square, But Tea Party Protests Were Like Terrorist Weathermen

Michael Kimmelman's piece on the Aristotelian "polis" of Occupy Wall Street was accompanied by photos of legendary protests from Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Times ...

Matt Bai's Mag Cover Story Deals with 'Extremist,' 'Far-Right Republicans' of Campaign '12

More charm from Matt Bai: The GOP needs "someone who can take the call for austerity in Washington and make it sound more like a high-minded reform movement (in the tradition of a Robert La ...

Disdain for 'Right Wing' Position on Global Warming: 'We Look Like a Joke, Right?'

"In the United States, the right wing of the Republican Party has managed to turn skepticism about man-made global warming into a requirement for electability, forming an unlikely triad with ...

'Do the Bankers Get It?' Asks Condescending Times

Liberal condescension at the Times over privately whispered opposition to the Occupy Wall Street protests: "As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have grown and spread to other cities, an open ...

Two Jill Abramson Profiles Bring Up Accusations of Liberal Slant

Ken Auletta on Jill Abramson, the Times' new executive editor: "An editorial voice in news stories adds credence to the frequent charge that the Times' news reporting often displays a liberal bias ...

Paul Krugman: Occupy Wall Street Protest 'a Wonderful Thing'

Columnist Paul Krugman celebrates leftist protesters on Charlie Rose: "...I think the explosion of this movement really suggests that there were an awful lot of people who were just waiting for ...