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-Mania Reigns

Plus: Historic Hillary's Brave Fight Against Sexism & At Least Communists Meant Well

Times Watch Director Appears on Fox Business Network

Clay Waters discussed the paper's falling share price and its liberal bias.

"Faltering" Fred Lashes Out at Huckabee (and the NYT)

Fred Thompson: "You can tell that the news is good coming out of Iraq because you read so little about it in The New York Times."

Eliot Spitzer Extends "Olive Branch" While "G.O.P. Pouts"

Nicholas Confessore can't believe Republicans would act "frosty" toward Gov. Spitzer - but doesn't mention "Troopergate," in which state police were misused to track the travel of Spitzer's ...

Hillary's Fight Against Sexism

The return of Hillary the victim: "Even Democratic women with no intention of voting for Mrs. Clinton found themselves drawn into the debate and shaken by what briefly seemed like a humiliating ...

The "Tolerant" Left Spews on Bill Kristol, the Times' Newest Columnist

Bill Kristol gets a Times column: Watch the left-wing blogosphere go nuts.

Times Mostly Falls for Hillary's Tears

The news pages mostly fall for Hillary's emotional display, but Maureen Dowd detects "a whiff of Nixonian self-pity."

Nossiter Finds More Appeals to Racism Among Republicans

Reporter Adam Nossiter on the GOP: "...appeals to solidarity based on race remain a potent if unspoken force for the party."

One Nation, Under Obama...

With Obama's rise, reporter Kirk Johnson sees the death penalty, global warming and gay marriage as issues that are becoming settled in the public mind - in ways that make liberals happy.

It's Obama-Mania at the NYT

"But the moment is suffused, so as almost not to require that he make it explicit, with a sense of historical moment. I, you, we can make history, he says, by turning the nation's sorrowful racial ...

Democrats: The Future's So Bright, They Gotta Wear Shades

Populist and pragmatist? Yeah, right: "In 1988, the populist Jesse Jackson kept stony counsel before giving his nod to the pragmatist Michael Dukakis."

The Media's Favorite 4th-Place Finisher, John McCain

"Mr. McCain, then - after a year in which his campaign nearly collapsed, the Iraq war and a controversial immigration bill eroded his popularity, and he was forced to continue his candidacy on a ...

Alessandra Loves Chris Matthews (and Obama Too?)

The Times' TV-beat correspondent loves Matthews' Obama worship, but CNN host and anti-illegal immigration crusader Lou Dobbs is "a nut about border crossings."

Does the Times Think Tom Tancredo Is Still in the Race for President?

Didn't he drop out two weeks ago? "Mr. Romney won the precinct with 179 votes, and Mr. McCain finished second with 109. They were followed by Mr. Huckabee, 78; Mr. Thompson, 48; Mr. Giuliani, 45; ...

Yeah! Winner Huckabee Deviates from "Republican Orthodoxy"

How to get the Times to like you: "In the final days of the race, Mr. Huckabee deviated further from what has been Republican orthodoxy. He stopped merely trumpeting the taxes that he cut in ...

Media Favorite John McCain "Reinvigorated" (By 4th-Place Finish)

Independent voters, or just liberals? "Mr. McCain is also focusing on issues important to many independent voters, like climate change and improving the United States' image abroad by taking such ...

"Upbeat" U.S. Deluded About Decline of Civilian Fatalities in Iraq?

"The late-afternoon blast in the Zayuna neighborhood, days after American officials gave an upbeat briefing about how civilian casualties had declined significantly, was one in a string of attacks ...

Iowa Voters Savoring Their Delicious Democrats

Jodi Kantor says Democrats are yummy: "In discussing their choices, Democrats sounded like diners ooohing and ahhing slowly - very slowly - over a menu with too many enticing choices."

Chief Book Critic Raves Over Liberals in Year-End List

Four out of 6 of Michiko Kakutani's favorite non-fiction books come from liberals.

Times Says Free Market a False Idol

Simplistic liberalism in the news pages: "For more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is ...