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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NYT Fronts Columnist's Optimistic Take on Recovery, 2010 Prospects for Dems

The paper's financial correspondent Floyd Norris earns rare front-page placement with a column blaring optimism about the U.S. economy.

Disgraced NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer on 'Road to Redemption'

Just don't call the former prostitution ring client a Democrat, OK?

NYT Promotes Leftist Whining of 'Rights' Groups 'Harassed' and Repressed by 'Ultra-Zionists' in Israel

More anti-Israel double standards: Reporter Isabel Kershner's sympathetic story about unlabeled leftwing "rights" groups allegedly being "harassed" by conservatives, the Israeli government and an ...

Here We Go Again: Columnist Vecsey Excoriates Racist, Sexist Augusta National Golf Club

Seven years after the paper's ill-fated crusade against Augusta National Golf Club's refusal to admit women, sports columnist George Vecsey columnist again rebukes the site of The Masters ...

John Edwards, Man Without a Party

A Democratic senator who was the target of a death threat was readily identified as a Democrat - but disgraced former Democratic senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was simply...John ...

Nagourney May Have Jumped the Gun on RNC's 'Lagging Fundraising'

On the morning the RNC announced impressive donation figures for the month of March, chief political reporter Adam Nagourney goes after beleagured RNC chairman Michael Steele for, among other ...

More Double Standards on Death Threats Against Congressmen

No Times reporter covered the arrest made after death threats against Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican. Yet David Herszenhorn filed a 10-paragraph story on news of an arrest in regard ...

Times Headline Defines Patriotism As Forking It Over to the I.R.S.

A retired federal employee reports a flaw in a tax-prep program that could have saved him money, and the Times honors him as a true patriot: Taxpayer Could Have Kept the $600, but He Put His ...

NYT's Top Book Critic Forwards Myth of Obama the Moderate

When was this? Top book critic Michiko Kakutani uses David Remnick's new Obama biography to champion Obama as a pragmatic compromiser: "Perhaps it's also an inclination that explains why he made ...

Ronald Reagan, 'Naive' on Terror

"...Mr. Reagan praised the Nicaraguan contra rebels, who had a bloody record fighting the Communist Sandinistas, as 'the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.' In the cold war contest with the ...

Zernike: Will Tea Party Blow Chance to Beat Harry Reid?

Zernike finds possible weak point in Tea Party movement, spends half a story on it: "Still, while polls suggest that Mr. Reid may lose his bid for re-election, it could be in spite of the Tea ...

Times Minds Agree: Liberal Sen. Blanche Lincoln Is Actually 'Conservative'

John Harwood and Jeff Zeleny agree that Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas is a "conservative," though her American Conservative Union rating is a safely left-of-center 19 out of a ...

NYT Interviewer Deborah Solomon Meets Right-Wing Pol Rand Paul, Hostility Ensues

Deborah Solomon once again making conservatives comfortable in her Times Magazine interviews: "You haven't even served in government for five minutes."

David Carr Admits Media Colleagues Missing Palin's Mass Appeal

Media reporter-columnist David Carr suspects the media is missing Sarah Palin's appeal: "Ms. Palin still gets a session in the media spanking machine every time she does anything, but the ...

NYT Reporter Hurls False Racism Allegation at Tea Party Protesters on Capitol Hill

Health-care beat reporter David Herszenhorn led off the latest "Political Points" podcast at nytimes.com: "Well there's so many things, Sam. One is clearly there's a racial component. Some members ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note: Obama-Care Protesters = Violent Racists of Civil Rights Movement

Plus: Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Liberal Times Columnists

Obama-Care Protesters = Violent Racists of Civil Rights Movement

Plus: Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Liberal Times Columnists

The Times Militia Reporting Promotes Favorite Lefties at Southern Poverty Law Center

A would-be domestic terrorist group in Michigan sends the Times running for quotes from the unlabeled left-wingers at Southern Poverty Law Center, who see right-wing extremists just about ...

Instant Karma's Gonna Get You...

A reporter chiding a blogger for misspelling a word manages to misspell the word "misspell."

Vatican Responds to NYT Accusations Against Pope Benedict XVI

Cardinal William Levada, a top Vatican official, issues a rare plea in response to Times coverage of how the Church handled several cases of alleged sexual abuse by priests, and what Joseph ...