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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NY Times Reporter Herszenhorn Finds 'Anger...Fury,' and Ignorant GOP Voters in Pennsylvania

New York Times reporter David Herszenhorn finds anger and voter ignorance at only one end of the political spectrum, and has time for a fact-check of conservative claims: "The voters of ...

Herszenhorn Finds 'Anger...Fury,' and Ignorant Republican Voters in Pennsylvania

Reporter David Herszenhorn finds anger and voter ignorance at only one end of the political spectrum, and has time for a fact-check of conservative claims: "The voters of Pennsylvania are angry at ...

Obama's Chamber of Commerce Attack Falls Flat at the New York Times

Two reporters file separate stories dismissing the import of a left-wing attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for allegedly allowing foreign money to be used in U.S. elections, with one ...

Times Hits 'Venomous' Rhetoric of Ground Zero Mosque Critic Pamela Geller

The Times ironically accuses anti-Islamic blogger Pamela Geller for having "quoted selectively" the controversial imam, and accuse her of spreading "misimpressions that the project was at the ...

The Times Gets Its Grand Theory on Ann Coulter All Wrong

Blogger Mickey Kaus undermines the Times' grand theory on conservative commentator Ann Coulter "trotting out a new image", saying it "might strike some as a sleazy and condescending attempt to ...

NYT Mag Writer Traub: Tea Party Fighting 'War on Competence and Professionalism'

New York Times Magazine contributor James Traub on the Tea Party candidates: "But it also strikes me that there's a kind of war on competence and professionalism going on here. And these insurgent ...

NYT Mag Writer Traub: Tea Party Fighting 'War on Competence and Professionalism'

New York Times Magazine contributor James Traub on the Tea Party candidates: "But it also strikes me that there's a kind of war on competence and professionalism going on here. And these insurgent ...

NY Times Whispers Into Ear of IRS: Check Out These Sneaky New Pro-GOP Groups

Michael Luo's wink-wink, nudge-nudge on the rush of campaign spending from corporations currently benefiting Republican issues and candidates: "It remains to be seen whether the I.R.S. or the ...

Michael Shear Laments Failure to Heed Obama Over Unregulated Campaign Cash Going to GOP

"Flood of Campaign Cash Becomes the Issue," reads the Times online headline over a Michael Shear story. And just how did it "become the issue"? Because the Times and the Democrats want it to be ...

Times Passes Along Scare Tactics of Western Democrats

Kirk Johnson on the Democrats' bringing up "wedge issue" like abortion to keep Democratic voters on their side come November: "But whether Mr. Buck is out of touch, or exactly in touch with his ...

The NYT Co. Files Friend of the Court Brief in Favor of 'God Hates Fags' Church

The Times supports the First Amendment rights of the despicable "God Hates Fags" funeral picketers, led by Fred Phelps, but other kinds of free speech like campaign advertising by corporations are ...

Times Main Economics Writer Loves Obama-Care for Disrupting 'Status Quo'

Times economics writer David Leonhardt reacted to news that McDonald's may drop health insurance for its workers because of Obama-care by blaming the status quo: "...it does represent progress. ...

Inflammatory Democrat Alan Grayson Merely 'Not Known for Subtlety' According to Times Headline

Rep. Grayson has accused the Republicans of wanting sick people to die quickly and compared them to Neanderthals and the Taliban. But you wouldn't get a hint of that from the Times' awkward, ...

As Newspapers Inhale Cash From Medical Marijuana Ads, Times Forgets Usual Journalistic Ethics Questions

Reporter Jeremy Peters pens a wholly positive story on the symbiotic relationship between local newspapers and medical marijuana dealerships: "...in states like Colorado, California and Montana ...

Still Rehabilitating Desiree Rogers' Reputation

Jeremy Peters celebrates Obama confidante and former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and barely mentions why she was forced out: "During her 15-month stay in Washington, Ms. Rogers ...

Krugman's Latest Two-Minutes Hate Against Fox News, Tea Party

Columnist Paul Krugman brings up a racist movie in his snide note to the Tea Party movement: "A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you're ...

Nagourney Claims Dem-Inspired Scandal in Cali 'A Distracting Embarrassment' for Meg Whitman

In California, reporter Adam Nagourney forwards phony Democratic concerns over a former illegal immigrant housekeeper employed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman: "The episode has ...

'Obscure Texts By Long-Dead Writers'...Like Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Friedrich Hayek?

Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike on the Tea Party canon, including Friedrich Hayek, a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1974 who died in 1992: "But when it comes to ideology, it has reached back ...

Frank Rich on the Racist 'Idiots' of the G.O.P.

Even more ill-humored than usual, the Times' Sunday columnist rails against Christine O'Donnell, Michael Steele and the rest of the "useful idiots" in a Republican Party that routinely demonizes ...

'Tens of Thousands' at Lefty Rally in D.C., but Times Avoided Specifics for Tea Party, Beck

Labor reporter Steven Greenhouse led his story on the left-wing "One Nation" rally with a specific and generous crowd estimate. Yet the Times didn't get into specifics when it came to far larger ...