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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Nicer to Bomb-Throwing William Ayers Than Conservative William Buckley

Plus: Rush Limbaugh a ""Sweaty, Swollen Man""

Getting Cute with the Catholic Church

Rachel Donadio reported the Vatican's public relations blunder in the case of a Holocaust-denying bishop and went on to describe "a 2,000-year-old monarchy...run by octoganerians."

Liberal Timothy Egan Passes Moral Judgment on "Truly Awful Rich People"

Egan celebrates the death tax and wonders if there's a Hell painful enough for Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay, and Leona Helmsley.

At Last: Times Covers Chas Freeman, Obama's Anti-Israel Intelligence Pick

After missing the story for days, the Times finally delivers the facts after Chas Freeman withdraws with an angry denunication of "the Israel lobby."

Michelle, My Belle

Reporter Rachel Swarns has pumped out four flattering pieces on the first lady in a month: "Michelle Obama, who has juggled news conferences and parent-teacher conferences..."

Hillary's Replacement Still Too Conservative for Liberal Times Reporters

Another day, another analysis of New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's former "white and rural district" and her "100 percent rating" from the NRA. Did the Times care about Hillary Clinton's 100 ...

Cable News Partisanship: Good on Leftist MSNBC, Not on Anti-Obama CNBC

After celebrating MSNBC's move to the left and resulting ratings surge, the Times frets that CNBC is "making the line between reporter and commentator almost indistinguishable at times" as it ...

Neil Lewis's Reporting on Court Packed With Bias

Neil Lewis's latest slanted story on "conservative" judges vs. Obama's non-ideological ones: Conservatives want to "roll back affirmative action" and are "restrictive of abortion rights" and "less ...

Ann Coulter Talks to the "Treason Times"

The Times' Dave Itzkoff interviewed Ann Coulter and may have gotten even more than he bargained for: "I'll have you know, I am the Treason Times most loyal reader. I was hoping your email was a ...

NYT's Blow Goes After "Limbaugh-tomized Minions of the Far, Far Right"

With admirable concision, Times columnist Charles Blow (pictured) packs lots of GOP insults - "three blind mice," "axis of drivel" - into one short column.

Columnist Roger Cohen Ashamed of Israel's Actions, Wants Recognition of Hamas

Columnist Roger Cohen says calling Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists is a "narrow" and simplistic view and says of the recent Gaza "travesty": "I have never previously felt so shamed by Israel's ...

Zing! Times Asks Obama: "Are You a Socialist?"

Reporter Peter Baker defends the question from outcry from the Angry Left: "The point is not the label, per se, but the question of whether the times and the solutions under consideration ...

The Times Finally Sits Down With Obama

The Times wades into a racial "tumult" over Attorney General Eric Holder's description of America as "a nation of cowards" on race matters - after ignoring it for three weeks.

"Obama Administration" vs. "The Government"

When bad news hits, does the Times shift responsibility from Barack Obama to place the blame on that more generic institution "the government"?

GOP Senator Bunning "Bit of a Screwball," May Be Mentally Unfit

More classy commentary from reporter Mark Leibovich on controversial conservative Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky: "...Mr. Bunning has shown no sign of stepping aside and delivered a string of ...

The Times Finds Bias in the Academy - Against Liberals?

Patricia Cohen locates the one academic discipline where conservatives have some voice - the economics department - and criticizes it for lack of balance.

Former NYT Reporter: "Clown" Limbaugh a "Sweaty, Swollen Man"

Timothy Egan, liberal reporter turned liberal nytimes.com blogger, jumps on the White-House driven anti-Rush bandwagon.

Roger Cohen Says Calling Hamas, Hezbollah Terrorist Is "Simplistic"

The Times' international columnist also makes fun of the name of a conservative blog that criticized a naive Cohen column about how good life is for Jews in Iran.

Maureen Dowd Makes Nice With McCain, on Earmarks

Maureen Dowd sides with John McCain, the twittering King Lear, against the overly passive Barack Obama.

Bank Nationalization? No Worries

David Leonhardt can't understand why the Obama administration is so reluctant to bring it up: "...it is a bit odd to watch Barack Obama, who aspires to finally end the era of Reaganomics, spend ...