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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Latest NYT Poll Shows Obama Approval Plummeting

A poll that only made page 8 of the paper shows Obama's job approval has fallen by six points and his disapproval rate risen six points since September.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Like 'George W. Bush on Steroids'

A charming image, courtesy of Times contributing writer Robert Draper, on Texas's Republican governor, Rick Perry: "...in his ostrich-skin cowboy boots with popcorn tumbling down his shirt while ...

Sign Us Up: Trillions to Fight Global Warming 'Relatively Small Fraction' of Total Economic Output

Fighting "global warming" will cost trillions of dollars, but don't worry, John Broder explains, it's "a relatively small fraction of the world's total economic output."

Politics of Fear OK When It Comes to Global Warming

Kookiness on parade at the Copenhagen climate talks is greeted with studious neutrality by the Times credulous reporters: "To help establish the mood, the choreographers of the meeting screened a ...

Get Your Race-Based Holiday Shopping Done at NYTimes.com!

The New York Times has set up a special gift page for non-whites, with gift suggestions like the "Wise Latina" t-shirt: "Wise shoppers can commemorate the moment in history when Sonia Sotomayor ...

Another NYT Nudge Toward End-of-Life Health Care Rationing?

Andrew Pollack greets a new tumor-shrinking drug with concerns about costs, as if cancer-fighting drugs come cheap: "A newly approved chemotherapy drug will cost about $30,000 a month, a sign that ...

Times Headline on McCain Criticizing Obama: 'The Crankiness of the Defeated'

Has the Times anger at Republicans for blocking Obama-care reduced them to making old-man jokes?

Vinyl LP's: Still Making a Comeback

Maybe someday they will finally arrive...

Times 'Ethicist' Tackles 'Radio Blowhards' and 'Tea Party Crackpots'

Times "Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen attacks conservatives: "...even in an era when radio blowhards fulminate and Tea Party crackpots threaten violence against their political foes, it is ...

The Science Is Still Settled, Part II

When it comes to science, "Take nobody's word for it" - unless they're pushing global warming alarmism, of course: "With the scientific consensus more or less settled that human activity - the ...

Don't Fret About ClimateGate - The Science Is Still Settled

On the eve of potentially expensive climate change talks in Copenhagen, Andrew Revkin and John Broder assure readers that besides CRU there are "a wide range of data from other sources, including ...

Times Public Editor Says ClimateGate Emails 'Not a Three-Alarm Story'

Clark Hoyt defends Andrew Revkin's incomplete coverage of ClimateGate and the Times for not posting the emails on its web site.

Times Watch Quotes of Note - Sarah Palin Fans Racist or Something

Read the absolutely most biased quotes from the Times in the latest edition of Quotes of Note.

Here's to the Losers: Times Celebrates Sobbing NYS Senators Supporting Gay Marriage

Reporter Michael Grynbaum quoted not one, not two, but six emotional New York State senators supporting gay marriage - in a vote that lost by a wide margin: "Ruth Hassell-Thompson was a young girl ...

Malkin Annihilates Nicholas Kristof's Guilt-Tripping Column on Obama-Care

"Are We Going to Let John Die?" Kristof asked. Um, apparently not: "John Brodniak, a man who already has government health insurance and is already being treated for his illness, is the New York ...

With Huckabee, Times Now Feels Free to Make 'Willie Horton' an Issue

The Times never forgave the GOP for using murderer Willie Horton against Mass. Gov. Michael Dukakis. But with Republican Mike Huckabee facing a similar problem over a clemency that ended in ...

NY Times Science Writer Blasts 'Smug Groupthink' Among Climategate Scientists

Unpredictable New York Times science columnist John Tierney reads the hacked Climate-gate emails and finds "smug groupthink" and revenge plots "against those who question the dangers of global ...

Blood-for-Oil Allegation Leads a NY Times News Story from Iraq

On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Timothy Williams led his story from Baghdad, "Now With Foothold in Iraq, Oil Companies Look to the Future" with a "blood for oil" accusation the hard left has ...

South Carolina Conservatives 'Catering to the Angry Fringe'?

South Carolina Rift Highlights Debate Over G.O.P.

Times Science Writer Blasts 'Smug Groupthink' Among Climategate Scientists

Unpredictable science columnist John Tierney reads the hacked Climate-gate emails and finds "smug groupthink" and revenge plots "against those who question the dangers of global warming."