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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Influential Times Editor Calls Anti-Tax Protesters "Tea-Baggers"

Plus: Thomas Friedman Praises Communist China for Getting Things Done

Influential Times Editor Calls Anti-Tax Protesters "Tea-Baggers

Plus: Thomas Friedman Praises Communist China for Getting Things Done

Times Editor Mocks Conservative "Stalker" of Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers

Under the headline "Stalking William Ayers," the paper's online political editor Kate Phillips mocks a conservative blogger for asking early-70's violent radical Bill Ayers if he was Obama's ...

Main Economics Writer Says High Taxes Are Necessary for Modern Society

High taxes are a societal imperative, says the Times' economics conscience, David Leonhardt: "And taxes are supposed to rise as a country grows richer."

Thomas Friedman's Global Warming Fears Straight Out of Disaster Movie

Too many "The Day After Tomorrow" rentals on Netflix? Columnist Thomas Friedman warns: "We never know when the next emitted carbon molecule will tip over some ecosystem and trigger a nonlinear ...

Movie Critic Again Ponders a Marxist Uprising

Stephen Holden on why the left-wing guerilla filmmakers The Yes Men keep up the good fight: "I imagine they would argue that they are sowing the seeds of a populist revolt somewhere down the line. ...

An Empty 'Republican Trophy Case' for Obama Care

The overexcitable reporter David Herszenhorn is still seeing Obama triumphs on health care, including a purported "Republican chorus for health care" that's actually sounding some pretty flat notes.

NY Times Falls for 'White Coats in Rose Garden' Staged Photo-Op

The New York Times played up "White Coats in Rose Garden," a photo-op of doctors shipped in to support Obama's health care overhaul, but reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg managed to miss the ...

"White Coat" Syndrome Hits the Times

The Times plays up "White Coats in Rose Garden," a photo-op of doctors shipped in to support Obama's health care overhaul, but reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg managed to miss the embarrassing image ...

The NYT's Instant Weight Loss Plan: Michael Moss's E. Coli Report

Michael Moss's story on how e.coli in a burger paralyzed a Minnesota woman is changing lunch plans all across the nation and may signal a change in meat inspection procedures. But how big is the ...

Making Excuses for Obama's "Bind" in Closing Guantanamo Bay

Reporter Scott Shane makes excuses for President Obama's failure to fulfill his campaign pledge of closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay: "To understand how hard it is proving for ...

Eduardo Porter, Past Econ. Reporter, Takes on "Plutocrats" & Hails Nader's Silly Lefty Novel

Liberal Times economic reporter turned ultra-liberal editorialist Eduardo Porter unleashes his left-wing envy and wonders why life can't be more like Ralph Nader's new novel.

The Times Confronts an Urban Liberal Nightmare: Cupcakes for Children

A Times headline writer has some issues with sweets: "Trying to keep obese students away from their favorite poisons."

Influential NY Times Editor Derides Anti-Tax Protesters as 'Tea-Baggers'

New York Times Week in Review and Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, on Slate, useed a well-known lefty vulgarism: "Even today the right insists it is driven by ideas, even if the leading thinkers ...

Times Warns: Don't Trust GOP Claims of Obama-Care Tax Hikes

Adam Nagourney and David Herszenhorn's story contained a not-so-secret message: Don't trust the GOP when it accuses Obama-care of raising taxes, because they've misled you before on death panels ...

Timothy Egan Attacks Bush's Christian Supporters as "Ned Flanders Nation"

Liberal Times reporter turned blogger Timothy Egan describes Bush and his supporters in hostile terms and laments "race-baiters in the Republican party."

Reporter Says GOP Misleads on Public Option Consequences - But Paul Krugman Agrees with Them

Jackie Calmes tries to calm conservative fears that the "public option" on health care would drive private health insurers out of business. Yet Times liberal columnist Paul Krugman would welcome ...

Influential Times Editor Calls Anti-Tax Protesters "Tea-Baggers"

Sam Tanenhaus, Times Week in Review and Book Review editor and author of "The Death of Conservatism," uses the left-wing vulgarism "tea-baggers" to describe anti-tax protesters: "Even today the ...

Print Edition Ignores Rep. Grayson's GOP Bashing, Holocaust Reference

The Times moralized over Rep. Joe Wilson's "disrespectful" outburst ("You lie!") during Obama's health care address to Congress. But when a Democrat said the GOP's health care plan was for ...

Another Nudge Toward Health Care Rationing: Questioning "Costly Valve for the Frail"

The next big thing in heart surgery are replacement valves, which can be implanted without open-heart surgery. But instead of evaluating this as a straightforward boon to humanity, the Times ...