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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Obama's Attacks Applauded; 2004 GOP Attacks Were Assailed as "Brutal...Furious Assault"

The Times saluted Barack Obama's "good, great or something else" speech for its "cutting language" against Republicans - but four years ago Republicans were accused of "ruthless" and "brutal" ...

McCain's "Legions" of Race-Baiters Targeting Heir to FDR

Former reporter Timothy Egan on "underdog" Obama "fighting the headwinds of history" and McCain's "legions" of underhanded race-baiters.

Was John Kerry "Swiftboated" in 2004?

No surprise in the Times' choice of verb.

"Barack Hussein Obama" Now OK With the NYT

After several stories criticizing conservatives for using Barack Obama's middle name, the Times leads with it.

Clueless Columnist Friedman Celebrates China's "Concentrated State Power"

Tom Friedman cluelessly celebrates the Chinese Communists "planning" and "national mobilization," which included displacing over a million of its citizens to make way for Olympic pageantry.

Pushing Another Left-Wing Anti-War Dud

Anti-Bush author Ron Suskind's anecdote about a "forged letter," allegedly used by Bush to establish a Saddam-9/11 link, is very likely a phony story in itself.

Obama's Not in Kansas Anymore - And Never Was

Alessandra Stanley noted praise of "Obama's hardscrabble Kansas roots," but Obama had never even been to his grandfather's hometown in Kansas until this year.

Hillary Clinton's Speech: How Great Was That?

The Times political blog asks readers about Hillary Clinton's speech: Did you A) Love It or B) Really, Really Love It?

Times Again Glosses Over Bill Ayers' Terrorism, Attacks Ad Instead

For the third story in a row, Jim Rutenberg shrugs off Obama associate Bill Ayers' bombing of the U.S. Capitol to instead obsess over the funding of a conservative ad questioning the relationship.

Times Lauds "Hero" Kennedy, Downplays Michelle Obama's "Proud" Gaffe

The Times opens up the Democratic Convention and sees optimism for the party.

Rutenberg Still Mad at Obama-Bill Ayers Ad

Reporter Jim Rutenberg is again more interested in the nefarious funding behind an ad linking Obama and homegrown terrorist William Ayers, than he is in the link itself. Plus more of the ...

Biden Not Tough Enough on Thomas, Not Nice Enough to Anita Hill?

Editor Kate Phillips: "[Biden] was widely criticized by liberal legal advocates and women's groups as having mismanaged the allegations of sexual harassment made by Ms. Hill against her former ...

"Pragmatic" Obama Not a Liberal? The Times Stacks the Deck

Not a "raging liberal"? National Journal might disagree - they named him the most liberal senator in 2007.

How Dare Ad Link Terrorist Bill Ayers to Barack Obama

Jim Rutenberg spends the first half of his story on a new anti-Obama campaign ad obsessing over who is funding it and whether or not it's legal.

Refreshing: "Iraq a Remarkably Safer Place" Now Than Before Surge

This is the New York Times, right?

What About Iraq? NYT Pollsters Skip Long-Standing Question

After five years of asking respondents how they think things are going in Iraq, Times' pollsters suddenly switch to Afghanistan, where prospects are worse. Is it because an improving Iraq is ...

Send Your W-2's in Care of Brown University.

A Times' letter-writer's love affair with her 1040 form: "[Columnist Ben Stein] says he doesn't care for paying taxes, but I like it."

Neo-Liberal Timesman on Obama the "Fiscal Conservative"

David Leonhardt obsesses over income inequality and claims that "Relative to McCain...Obama does indeed look like a fiscal conservative."

Does the Times Think Brigitte Gabriel's a "Radical Islamophobe"?

The author and opponent of radical Islam faces amazingly hostile and suspicious questions from the Times' liberal "Q&A" interviewer Deborah Solomon (pictured).

Reporters Annoyed with McCain's Mockery of Obama

It's OK for Democrats to mock McCain as a tool of Big Oil, but don't laugh or issue "snarky news releases" about Obama's tire gauge suggestion.