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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Thank Goodness: Obama-care 'Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman'

The Times' Denise Grady cribs from a feminist group to accuse health insurance companies of sex discrimination, something that will be cured under Obama-care: "Being a woman is no longer a ...

More Bits of Anti-Conservative Bias from Sarah Lyall in London

"As the privileged son of a baronet and an important figure in the Conservative Party, which has traditionally been allied with wealth and elitism, [George Osborne also had to show that he ...

Michiko Misinterprets Novelist Ian McEwan, and Says 'Greed' Causing Global Warming

The paper's liberal book critic strikes again in a misguided review of Ian McEwan's latest novel "Solar," about a hypocritical science fighting climate change: "This self-deluding scientist will ...

The Times Finds a Politically Slanted Television Show: '24'

Brian Stelter on the cancellation of the Fox action-drama "24," after eight seasons: "The series enlivened the country's political discourse in a way few others have, partly because it brought to ...

Prominent Republican Gets Actual Death Threat, NYT Suddenly Drops Concern Over Threatening Protesters

After devoting several stories to unsubstantiated allegations of racial epithets by Tea Party protesters last weekend, the New York Times almost ignored an actual death threat made against a top ...

NYT Ties Apocalyptic Domestic Terror Group to Threats to Dem Lawmakers

No connection, but we'll bring it up anyway: "A law enforcement official said the plot appeared to be unconnected to recent threats against Democratic lawmakers who voted for legislation ...

Making Obama-Care a Racial Issue

Reporter Kevin Sack makes a racial issue out of Obama-care in a dispatch from Georgia: "At constituent meetings in three rural towns, every white speaker, save one, commended Mr. Barrow for his ...

Outrage Over Obama-Care? Blame Sarah Palin, Says NYT's Health-Care Cheerleader Herszenhorn

Outrage over Obama-care? Blame Sarah, says reporter and Obama-care cheerleader David Herszenhorn: "As lawmakers headed home, they confronted an outpouring of public rancor at public meetings, ...

Prominent Republican Gets Actual Death Threat, NYT Suddenly Drops Concern Over Threatening Protesters

After devoting several stories to unsubstantiated allegations of racial epithets by Tea Party protesters last weekend, the Times almost ignored an actual death threat made against a top ...

NYT Ponders: Weather Underground, Tea Party Movement Just 'Varying Degrees of Rage'

Domestic terrorist group Weather Underground and the peaceful anti-tax protesters of the Tea Party movement - just "varying degrees of rage," according to a photo caption accompanying Benedict ...

Weather Underground, Tea Party Movement: Just 'Varying Degrees of Rage'?

Domestic terrorists Weather Underground and peaceful anti-tax protesters of the Tea Party movement - just "varying degrees of rage" according to a photo caption accompanying Benedict Carey's story.

Zernike Strikes Again: 'Emotion Outweighs Fact' Among Tea Party Hypocrites

Kate Zernike: "[Tea Party organizer Jeff McQueen] and others do not see any contradictions in their arguments for smaller government even as they argue that it should do more to prevent job loss ...

Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Liberal Times Columnists Frank Rich and Charles Blow

Charles Blow on Saturday: "Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill's most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man ...

Krugman Hits G.O.P.'s 'Eliminationist Rhetoric' and Reagan the 'Anti-Government Fanatic'

Paul Krugman is struck by "the eliminationist rhetoric" of Republican leaders (a ridiculous charge in itself), but was fine with the idea of Sen. Joe Lieberman being hung in effigy by angry lefties.

The Times Continues to Push Tea Party 'Threats and Vandalism'

With the help of the Democrats and the New York Times: "...the vandalism threatened to be a public relations disaster for the fledgling Tea Party movement."

NYT Execs: Generous With Other People's Money, But They Like Their Own

Times executives are quite generous with other people's money, as judged by Times editorials and reports urging higher taxes on the rich, and unleashing harsh criticism on wealthy chief ...

Scary: Right-Wingers in Utah 'to Cast Out Those They Deem to Have Strayed' Like Sen. Bob Bennett.

Jeff Zeleny finds scary right-wingers in Utah: "The Tea Party movement and advocacy groups on the right are demanding that candidates hew strictly to their ideological standards, and are moving ...

Was Bush Right All Along About Social Security Reform?

Reporter Mary Williams Walsh doesn't say that, but does report that the United States is now paying out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold it was not ...

Jodi Kantor's Beloved Liberal Heroine, Bankruptcy Expert Elizabeth Warren

Jodi Kantor on liberal heroine, bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren: "Hosts and cameramen love her: she has the friendly face of a teacher, the pedigree of a top law professor, the moral force of a ...

NYT's Hulse Passes Along Dems Points on Violent, Racist Protests, Even Cites Palin Facebook Page

New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse plays along with the Democrat exploitation of a few extremist protesters for political gain. Where was the Times when GOP campaign offices were ...