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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John Schwartz's Annual Distort: Mocking Bush's Social Security Reform, Reaganomics

Reporter John Schwartz is making an annual specialty out of mocking Republican economic ideas in the paper's special Mutual Funds Report section: In 2005 President Bush's attempt at Social ...

Stolberg Marks 'Poignant' Departure of Another Liberal Senator

Sheryl Gay Stolberg had previously lauded defeated Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle as "a man of decency."

Movie Critic Manohla Dargis Works in Left-Wing Iraq Talking Point in 'Hurt Locker' Recap

Thanks for the heads-up, Manohla! The Times liberal movie critic reminds us "that war is both dirty business (and often fought by the poor)..."

Nancy Pelosi's Jab at Obama that 'No One Missed' - Except for Times Readers

The Times' John Harwood claims that "No one missed Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent jab at Mr. Obama when she pointed out campaign stances that he has since set aside." Well, no one except New York ...

Jackie Calmes Pities Obama's Full Plate, Again Lauds His 'Stimulus' Package

The world keeps intruding as Mr. Obama tries to execute his promised pivot" on the economy. But one of those intrusions is Obama's own health care agenda.

Rich Compares 9-11 Attacks to the '9-15 Failure of Lehman Brothers'

Frank Rich can't stop equating the financial crisis to the destruction of the Twin Towers: "What we don't know will hurt us, and quite possibly on a more devastating scale than any Qaeda attack. ...

Blow's Wishful Thinking on GOP: 'Turning Further Right Only Hastens Its Demise'

Charles Blow goes "Deliverance" on tea party protesters: "The attack on the Republican establishment by the tea party folks grabs the gaze like a really bad horror flick - some version of 'Hee ...

Times Keeps Pushes the Myth of Missing Moderates in the G.O.P.

The mystery of the missing moderates: The "moderate wing of the Republican Party in Florida and across the country is a very, very small group...if they exist at all, Times political profiler Mark ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - 'Fear-Filled, Nationalistic Fervor' After 9-11 Attacks

Plus the paper's ethics columnist berates radio blowhards and tea party crackpots," and David Brooks lets us know what his fellow journalists really think of Sarah Palin.

'Fear-Filled, Nationalistic Fervor' After 9-11 Attacks

Plus the paper's ethics columnist berates radio blowhards and tea party crackpots," and David Brooks lets us know what his fellow journalists really think of Sarah Palin

Times Disputes Validity of Pollster Showing Close Mass. Senate Race, Yet...

Covering a surprisingly tight Senate race in Massachusetts, Abby Goodnough referenced a Rasmussen Reports poll showing a Republican closing in, but twice emphasized that most news organizations ...

Gail Collins Again Whistles Past Democratic Graveyard

Gail Collins again tries to laugh off harbingers of doom for Democrats in the 2010 elections.

Leibovich Mines Florida Tea Party for Paranoia While Pitying 'Pariah' Moderate Charlie Crist

The Times' Mark Leibovich finds hecklers, racist anecdotes, and "contempt for the president" at a Florida tea party rally in a profile of the upcoming Florida Senate primary pitting Marco Rubio ...

Celebrating Left-Wing Videos of 'Forsaken' Victims of Israel's Anti-Terror Gaza Blockade

Ethan Bronner whitewashes Hamas arms smuggling: "One of the most interesting videos brings viewers inside the smuggler tunnels through which most consumer goods are brought into Gaza....The maker ...

Defending Obama's War on Terror with a Fusillade of Cliches

Here we go again. Reporter Peter Baker on how Barack Obama deals with the terror threat: "Where Bush saw black and white, Obama sees gray. Where Bush favored swagger, Obama is searching for a more ...

Edmund Andrews on Wall Street Crisis: 'There Really Were a Lot of Crooks Out There'

Recent Times financial reporter Edmund Andrews, who posed as a victim of the mortgage crisis in a book, claims the wanton recklessness on Wall Street that nearly wrecked the economy has exposed ...

Times Bemoans 'More Republican Stalling' on Obama-Care

Reporter David Herszenhorn sounds impatient. Under the partisan-Democrat headline "Bypassing a Roadblock," he wrote, "But the clear will of Democratic leaders in Congress is not to deal with more ...

NY Times Publicizes a Four-Person March in Support of Illegal Immigrants

A "march" from Miami to Washington on behalf of illegal immigrants consisting of four marchers somehow merited a 780-word New York Times article Saturday by reliably pro-amnesty reporter Julia ...

Times Publicizes a Four-Person March in Support of Illegal Immigrants

A four-person Miami-to-Washington march in support of illegal immigrants gets nearly the same level of coverage as the 100,000-strong rally of conservatives at the Capitol did in September.

Fierce Critic of Welfare Reform Makes Another Front-Page Plug for Food Stamps

But some of his victims aren't quite sympathetic: "[Wanda Debnam] sleeps with her 8-year-old granddaughter under a poster of the Jonas Brothers and uses her food stamps to avoid her ...