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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Selena Roberts' Huge Hypocrisy on Rutgers-Imus

While sports columnist Selena Roberts lauds the Rutgers' womens basketball team for challenging the "power differential" held by radio jock Don Imus, she had no qualms about sliming innocent Duke ...

Irony Alert: Hatemonger Sharpton Lectures Imus on Racism, but Times Doesn't Notice

The Times' headline gushes: "Meetings Are Part Revival, Part Rally, but All Sharpton." Oh joy.

Saddam Who? Times Marks 4th Anniversary of "Fall of Baghdad"

Did U.S. forces topple a dictator or just wreck Iraq's capital city?

"Housing Slump" Not So Scary After All?

Slate magazine argues: "The NYT confidently headlines its lead, 'Housing Slump Pinches States in Pocketbook.' It's a shame, then, that we have to wait till the 29th paragraph to find out that 'it ...

No Surge Protectors in the Times' Baghdad Bureau

The Times again suggests the troops surge in Iraq is doomed to failure.

The Times Loves GOP Moderates

Free at last: "During the 12 years that Republicans controlled the House, moderate Republicans were the stepchildren of their party, expected to vote with their conservative leadership on crucial ...

Defending Poor Nancy Pelosi from Presidential "Assault" over Syria

Defending the Speaker with pro-Democrat talking points.

Celebrating a Left-Wing Writer's "Crackling Expose"

"Jeremy Scahill's muckraking book 'Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army,'...[is] a crackling expose of the secretive military contractor Blackwater USA, which Scahill ...

Krugman: Clinton Administration "Pretty Honest and Well Run"

Ignore the evidence and just take Krugman's word for it: "The Clinton years were a parade of fake scandals: Whitewater, Troopergate, Travelgate, Filegate, Christmas-card-gate."

"Unsubstantiated Accusations" by Swift Boat Vets?

Plus: Times still sliming Duke lacrosse players and Wal-Mart employees are fat, poor and sick.

A Reporter's Grudge Against France's Tough-on-Crime Candidate

France's tough-on-crime presidential candidate "alienated many in ethnic districts" - as well as reporter Elaine Sciolino.

Is the Times Afraid of Mitt Romney?

"And of his top eight donors, four....are Mormons who each gave more than $100,000."

The "Unsubstantiated" Swift Boat Allegations Rise Again

A flashback to the Times' 2004 campaign coverage -"unsubstantiated accusations" again Sen. John Kerry from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Adam Nagourney Sees "Clear Blue Tint" in 2008 Race

More Democratic optimism from the paper's chief political reporter.

Wal-Mart Employees: Fat, Poor, Unhealthy Robots

Michael Barbaro: "Its workers earn, on average, less than $20,000 a year, which means that fitness and ecology are, by necessity, relatively low priorities....And a disproportionate number of its ...

More Myths About the GOP's Medicare "Cuts"

What "cuts" in Medicare did the GOP actually propose in 1995?

Stanley Strikes Again: "American Idol" Voting Result of Gore's Loss in 2000

Makes sense to us: "Maybe the reason that more people didn't turn out for the 2004 presidential race, despite the closeness of the tally four years earlier, is that they were still in denial and ...

Putting the "-ic" Back in the Democratic Party

The Times relays a whiny Democrat talking point.

Ignoring the "Imams on a Plane" Lawsuit

The Times relies on an AP squib for its coverage of a lawsuit by six imams against airline customers who reported the imams' suspicious behavior before a flight. Meanwhile, the New York Sun makes ...

Nina Bernstein, Back on the Pro-Immigration Beat

Do illegal immigrants really raise wages for U.S. workers? And did the detention of Muslims after 9-11 equal the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.