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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A Hunka Socialism in the Arts Section

"And while Victoria's Secret is only one of the chain stores at the seaport, making an example of it in the show is part of a larger point by Reverend Billy: the importance of conserving a ...

"Conservatives" vs. an "Economist" on Minimum Wage

Labeling bias in California.

Don't Call Them the "Democrat Party"

"It was the most direct attack on Democrats that Mr. Bush has made from a White House lectern this election year, and it effectively signaled the beginning of a more outright political season for ...

"Hardened" Tony Blair Deaf To Muslim Marginalization in Britain

Sarah Lyall plays the race card: "If such statements appealed to traditional, white Britain, which already felt that multiculturalism had gone too far, thank you very much, it made Muslims feel ...

Our Expose of Bumbling American Flatfoots? Never Mind

"A front-page article on Aug. 13 about the differences between the United States and Britain in dealing with terror plots referred incorrectly to the involvement by members of the New York City ...

The Failures of Welfare Reform, Courtesy of a Left-Wing Source

"...a growing group of poor families, known to scholars as the 'disconnected,' that are scraping by without either cash benefits or employment." Where?

"Widening Public Skepticism" About Airline Terror Threat?

So far, it's confined to the Times' newsroom.

GOP Making "Life Harder for Illegal Residents"

Still no liberals involved in the immigration debate, just conservatives.

Fury Against Dixie Chicks Causing Country Music Liberals to Clam Up?

"None of that was lost on Music Row. Democratic songwriters say that they have since hesitated to express political views, for fear of being 'Dixie Chicked.'" Like having a #1 album and fawning ...

The Times vs. The Times on Anti-Bush NSA Surveillance Ruling

Was the anti-Bush surveillance ruling "a careful, thoroughly grounded opinion" or did it "use[d] circular reasoning" and "substitute passion for analysis"?

More on Hezbollah's "Vast Social Services Network"

It's a wonder there's any Iranian money left over for killing Israelis, giving the group's generosity - as the Times portrays it, anyway.

Times Watch Quotes of Note - From "Kennedy Milk" to Bush's Bombs

Plus, a "varied group" of Muslim anti-war activists, Israel's "ferocious" attacks on Hezbollah, and Fidel Castro, the prisoner

More on Hezbollah's "Vast Social Services Network"

It's a wonder there's any Iranian money left over for killing Israelis, giving the group's generosity - as the Times portrays it, anyway.

A Coordinated Democratic Assault on Wal-Mart

No liberals here? An anti-Wal-Mart "offensive from across the ideological spectrum."

Sen. John Warner, the Times' Favorite "Staunch Supporter" of Bush

"The comments by Senator Warner, a senior Republican who is a staunch supporter of the president, have reverberated loudly across Congress."

Lebanon-Israel War Linked to Airline Terror Plot?

Plus: A British politician plays "the tough-on-terror card so familiar in the United States."

A Religious Double Standard?

The Times has a puffy piece on a Muslim Center in Queens teaching young Muslims the Koran - and nothing else - for up to three years, while noting as an aside that "the school may be inadvertently ...

Hezbollah, the Charity Group?

Wednesday's lead story on Hezbollah doesn't use the word "terrorism," but does cite the group's "reputation as an efficient grass-roots social service network."

Humanizing Hezbollah

Don't call them a terrorist group - it's an "organized militia."

Carl Hulse Spreads More Democratic Optimism

The Times' home page links directly to a Democratic campaign ad hosted by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.