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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Carl Hulse on GOP Candidates With 'a Very Conservative if Not Extreme Agenda'

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse has some chuckles at the expense of "extreme" Republican candidates: I thought what [the Times pollster] said was interesting about voters being willing to vote ...

More Texas Slant From James McKinley, Pitting Angry Conservatives Against a Working-Class Hero Dem

While one candidate was described in flattering fashion as a Democrat from the working-class streets of south San Antonio speaking to voters in flawless Spanish, his Republican opponent was seen ...

The NY Times Comes In Praise of Obama, 'Pragmatic...Open-minded' 'Philosopher President'

New York Times Arts reporter Patricia Cohen paused her patrolling of the intolerant conservative intellectual beat to flatter Obama the "pragmatic...open-minded" intellectual president: "[Harvard ...

In Praise of President Obama, 'Pragmatic...Open-minded' 'Philosopher President'

Arts reporter Patricia Cohen has paused her patrolling of the intolerant conservative intellectual beat to flatter Obama the "pragmatic...open-minded" intellectual president: "Mr. Kloppenberg ...

For Once, the No Spin Zone: Times Lead Poll Story Shows Big Gains for GOP

Reporters Jim Rutenberg and Megan Thee-Brenan informed their surely disheartened readership that Democrats are losing among all sorts of groups, even women: "Critical parts of the coalition that ...

Pumping Up a Struggling Democratic Senator's Prospects in Colorado

A neutral headline hides a warm profile by Kirk Johnson of Susan Daggett, wife of Democratic incumbent Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. Western-based reporter Johnson has a history of reporting ...

After Railing About Secret GOP Money Buying the Election, Times Dumps GOP Claims of Dem Vote Fraud

Ian Urbina blames conservatives for forwarding myths of vote fraud: "In 2006, conservative activists repeatedly claimed that the problem of people casting fraudulent votes was so widespread that ...

The Gold Medal for Consistent Bias Goes to Times' Coverage of the 'Dream Act' for Student Illegals

The Times covers no other political issue with less concern for balance than The Dream Act, which would provide amnesty for illegal immigrants who come into the country as children, provided they ...

Magazine Writer to Melinda Gates: Is Pope 'Hurting Efforts' on Women's Health By Opposing Birth Control, Abortion?

Deborah Solomon to Melinda Gates, co-chair of a foundation working for women's health in developing countries: "Do you think the pope is hurting efforts on behalf of women's health by preaching ...

More Liberal Preaching in Randy Cohen's Sunday Magazine 'Ethicist' Column

Inserting pearls of liberal wisdom into his ethical advice: "I believe, for example, nobody may honorably work for a tobacco company, the maker of a toxic product that, used as directed, annually ...

David Herszenhorn Warns 'How Much Worse' Things May Get If Brit-Style 'Budget Guillotine Falls Here'

Reporter David Herszenhorn reveals his big-government mindset, seeing only the bad side of potential budget cuts: "And for Americans still furious over the weak economic recovery, the obvious ...

NYT Catches 'Disturbing First Glimpse' of Bullhorn, Saddam Pistol at Bush Presidential Center

Former President George W. Bush can't even put exhibits in his own presidential center without offending some leftists. New York Times reporter Michael Brick in Dallas handed some at Southern ...

Seelye Turns Tables, Accuses Tea Party 'Darling' Rand Paul of 'Distorting' Sleazy Ad Attacking His Faith

Even Democrats are disowning a Democratic ad attacking Rand Paul's Christian faith, but Katharine Seelye begins by accusing Paul of distortion: "Even as Mr. Paul denounces the commercial, he is ...

'Disturbing First Glimpse' of Bullhorn, Saddam Pistol at Bush Presidential Center

Former president George W. Bush can't even put exhibits in his own presidential center without offending some leftists. Reporter Michael Brick in Dallas handed some of them a megaphone to complain ...

Maureen Dowd's Column on the 'Shameful Thomas-Hill Hearings' Reads Just Like Her News Coverage From 1991

Maureen Dowd's opinion on how the Senate dealt with the Thomas-Hill controversy hasn't changed since she covered it as a Washington reporter for the Times: "It's too late to relitigate the ...

Conservative Takeover of Kansas Is Imminent, Warns the Son of the Times' Publisher

"Moderate" Republicans fear the takeover of conservatives in Kansas, suggests the scion of the Times publisher, also the paper's bureau chief in Kansas City, in a story crammed with extraneous ...

Lead Story Goes After Fundraising of Obama Foe, the Chamber of Commerce

The Times leads with more scary wealthy anonymous Republican donors giving to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which the Obama administration has made its latest Public Enemy No. 1#: "The annual tax ...

Gail Collins Defends Nancy Pelosi, Calls Alaska GOP Joe Miller a 'Mean-Spirited Egoist'

Gail Collins: "If the Republicans take the House, the country will realize not only that every speaker is doomed to become a caricature of themselves, but also that the caricature can be way, way ...

NYT's Zernike, Aided by Politicized NAACP Report, Again Ventures Out to Find Tea Party Racism

"The nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization" teamed up with an unlabeled left-wing group to accuse the Tea Party of racism two weeks before an election, and the New York Times' Tea ...

Dowd Says Sarah Palin 'Has Made Ignorance Fashionable'

Maureen Dowd not only finds female Republican candidates to be "Mean Girls," but they are ignorant as well: "But now another famous beauty with glowing skin and a powerful current, Sarah Palin, ...