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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Times Suddenly OK With Warring President: Is Obama Intervention in Syria Next?

Today Libya, tomorrow Syria? Times reporters railed against the Iraq War, but are copacetic about possible Obama intervention in Syria: "But the very fact that the administration has joined with ...

NY Times Exploits Irene to Promote 'Climate Change'

Of course: "The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse ...

Editor Finds Rep. Issa's Retraction Demands 'Troubling' - But Hit Piece Has Been Corrected 3 Times

Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet gets huffy with Rep. Darrell Issa for demanding a retraction of a hostile story by reporter Eric Lichtblau: "I'd like to say that it is troubling to see your ...

Gee, Why Is 'Civil Rights Activist' Al Sharpton So Quiet These Days?

The Times wonders why "provocative civil rights activist" Al Sharpton has been so quiet when it comes to the rape charges filed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but virtually ignores his ...

Reporter Justin Gillis Again Uses Natural Disaster to Promote 'Climate Change'

Of course: "The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse ...

NYT's Keller Admits 'Late to Rev. Wright' in 2008, But Claims Paper Handled Story Well

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller thinks the Times eventually did a good job covering Obama's Rev. Wright problem: "Yes, Dems should be asked about their faith (and influences) too. We ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note: 'Deep Cuts in Social Services' by Conservatives Led to London Riots

Plus: Several Times columnists compare Tea Party members and congressional conservatives to terrorists and the "psychological upside" of Soviet repression.

'Deep Cuts in Social Services' by Conservatives Led to London Riots

Plus: Several Times columnists compare Tea Party members and congressional conservatives to terrorists.

Why Does the Times Adore 'Legendary Investor' Warren Buffett?

The answer is simple: He's the kind of businessmen that liberals like - who don't think they are paying enough money in taxes.

Keller Admits 'Late to Rev. Wright' in 2008, But Claims Paper Handled Story Well

Executive Editor Bill Keller thinks the Times eventually did a good job covering Obama's Rev. Wright problem: "Yes, Dems should be asked about their faith (and influences) too. We were late to ...

Bill Keller Questions Faith of G.O.P. Candidates, Compares Belief in God to Belief in Aliens

Bill Keller questions the faith of top Republican candidates, after ignoring Obama's preacher problem during the 2008 campaign. "Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Mormons, a faith that many ...

Greenhouse Attacks 'Arid Absolutism' of Conservative Court's Defense of Free Speech

The paper's former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse isn't fond of the conservative Supreme Court's expansive view of the First Amendment: "But it's the dissenting opinion of the Burger ...

Parker's Latest Snipe at Mitt Romney, 'Out-of-Touch Millionaire'

Ashley Parker on Mitt Romney's "corporations are people": "Some called the remark tone deaf, saying it fed into the perception of him as an out-of-touch millionaire. But on the campaign trail in ...

NYT's Krugman Gets Angry Over Fake Quote, But His Real Ones Are Just as Bad

Columnist Paul Krugman gets angry over a fake quote, but some of the things he has actually said about economic growth are just as bad. Three days after 9-11 he wrote that one of the possible ...

Krugman Gets Angry Over Fake Quote, But His Real Ones Are Just As Bad

Paul Krugman gets angry over a fake quote, but some of the things he has actually said about economic growth are just as bad. Three days after 9-11 he wrote that one of the possible "favorable ...

NYT's Hostility Toward French President Sarkozy Unabated

French President Sarkozy hassling the poor Socialist Party with his "obsession" with balanced budgets and deficit reduction: "The Socialists...have some sensible arguments, but as often in ...

NYT Virtually Ignores Biden Condoning China's One-Child Policy

The vice president's remarks in China on that country's one-child policy, which have led to forced abortions and sterilizations, have appeared only at nytimes.com: "You have no safety net. Your ...

Romney Somehow Wrong to Expand House After Criticizing Obama's Vacation

What's "awkward" about employing construction workers in a recession? "Mitt Romney has never claimed to be a middle-class man of the people. But the news that he is planning to quadruple the size ...

Cued Up By Obama's Move on Deportation, Julia Preston Issues Another Sympathetic Story on Illegals

Soft-on-illegal-immigration reporter Julia Preston revisits a happy Manuel Guerra, who led a four-person march to Washington in 2010 that somehow was worth a Preston story in the Times (while ...

Ugh: NYT Celebrates Fashion Sense of March Rioters in London

The Times asks of the March riots in London protesting reductions in government education spending: "What do you wear when protest and mayhem rock your world?"