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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Charles Blow: Black Tea Partiers Engaged in a 'Political Minstrel Show'

Columnist Charles Blow trods some highly questionable ground when insulting black Tea Party activists: "...I saw a political minstrel show devised for the entertainment of those on the rim of ...

Zernike Slams an 'Angry' White, Male, Reactionary Tea Party Movement Mired in the Past

Reporter Kate Zernike on the reactionary Tea Party movement: "They tend to be white and male, with a disproportionate number above 45, and above 65. Their memories are of a different time, when ...

Hulse Lets Clinton Smear Tea Party Protests as Lighting Fuse for Next Oklahoma City Bombing

Carl Hulse lets Bill Clinton suggest Tea Party protesters may be lighting the fuse for another Oklahoma City bombing: "The pitched attacks by some Republicans and conservatives during the health ...

'Senegal Urged to Rein In Religious Schools' - But What Religion Are We Talking About?

Adam Nossiter manages to write a story about children in Islamic religious schools in Senegal forced to beg in the streets without describing the religion in question: Islam.

Timothy Egan: Not a Single Liberal on the 'Extreme' Supreme Court? Really?

Former reporter Egan takes on the "extreme" Supremes: "This court, activist conservative in the extreme, has never met a corporation it has not coddled, nor a prosecution argument that does not ...

Michelle Obama, New Jackie O and Sole Savior of the Fashion Industry

Some more of that hard-bitten Times reporting: "Often called the First Lady of Fashion, Mrs. Obama has a sense of style, as we all know by now, that rivals Jackie Kennedy's. She has boosted the ...

Gail Collins Doesn't Get It Either: Expects Tea Partiers to Celebrate 47% Who Pay No Taxes

Columnist Gail Collins ironically asks when anti-tax groups will hold "rallies to thank the president for doing so much to reduce the burden on the half of the country least able to pay." ...

Times Polls Tea Partiers, Finds Them Educated, But Also Angry and Inconsistent

The Times lead story by Kate Zernike on its new poll of Tea Party protesters: Good start, questionable finish: "Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that ...

Krugman the Global Warming Prophet Howls: 'Utter Catastrophe' Possible

Paul Krugman, once an economist, then a left-wing talking-points purveyor, and now an expert climatologist: "Sea levels would rise, with the impact intensified by those storms: coastal flooding, ...

NYT's Leonhardt Dismisses How Almost Half Pay No Income Tax, Calls For Higher Rates on Those Who Do

David Leonhardt, the New York Times' voice on fiscal policy wants higher taxes on everyone, but most importantly the rich: "The answer is that tax rates almost certainly have to rise more on the ...

Reid's Liberal Amnesty Promise Makes It to Print - But His Reversal Only Makes It Online

Julia Preston's celebration of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's promise to push for amnesty for illegals "this year" made Sunday's print edition. Yet Reid's reversal three days later was ...

Leonhardt Dismisses How Almost Half Pay No Income Tax, Calls For Higher Rates on Those That Do

The NYT's voice on fiscal policy wants higher taxes on everyone but most importantly, the rich: "The answer is that tax rates almost certainly have to rise more on the affluent than on other ...

Hypocrisy on Stilts: Krugman Accuses Someone Else of 'Caricaturing' His Position, Making Him Sound 'Extreme'

Hypocrisy on stilts: Columnist Paul Krugman, who has accused the GOP of eliminationist rhetoric and global-warming skeptics of treason against the planet, chides a fellow Times writer for ...

Times Asks: Did Democrats Really Vote To Deprive Themselves of Health Insurance?

The Times' health care reporter Robert Pear uncovers a big goof in Obama-care: "Congress members may need to go insurance shopping." He adds: "The confusion raises the inevitable question: If they ...

Hulse Still Stands With Democrats on Extending Unemployment Benefits

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse: "Republicans rejected Democratic assertions that they were being heartless and said they recognized the need for unemployment aid....Democrats say Republicans ...

Times Celebrates James Cameron As Hero of Indigenous People on Front Page

The creator of "Avatar," which the Times calls "his epic tale of greed versus nature," is saving the indigenous people in Brazil, and threatens - um, promises, a sequel.

Maureen Dowd: Being a Catholic Woman Like Being One In Saudi Arabia

The Catholic Church and Islam are the same thing when it comes to their treatment of women according to Maureen Dowd: "I, too, rationalized as men in dresses allowed our religious kingdom to decay ...

The 'Conservative Bent' of Justice John Paul Stevens

Liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, friend of humanity: "He has been alert to the humanity of the people whose cases made their way to the court." In a series of articles on Stevens' retirement, ...

Former Supreme Court Reporter's Self-Righteous Liberalism Remains Intact

Times former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is still spouting self-righteous liberalism on nytimes.com, this time on immigration: "In this nation of immigrants and their descendants, we ...

Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Times Legal Reporters

Charlie Savage on Justice Stevens, April 9: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the mentally retarded on death row, his ...