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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Reporter Kevin Sack Issues White House Press Releases for Obama-Care

"For Many Families, Health Care Relief Begins Today" is one of four profiles the New York Times featured on the front of the National section to celebrate the day many of its regulations (the ...

The Times Trumpets Yet Another Tiny Illegal Immigrant Protest

Once again, immigration-beat reporter Julia Preston finds "dozens of college students" protesting in South Beach worth a 1,200-word story: "Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on ...

Obama, Bringing Hope to the Paris Slums

"But anti-American sentiment, once pervasive in these neighborhoods, seems to have been all but erased since the election of Mr. Obama, who has proved to be a powerful symbol of hope here and a ...

Shocker: Left-Wing Times Reporter Off to Left-Wing Huffington Post

Peter Goodman should find a good home at HuffPo, given his Marxist-infused reporting for the Times on America's faith in unfettered markets and Hummers as a sign of wasteful decadence."

Reporter Kevin Sack Issues White House Press Releases for Obama-Care

"For Many Families, Health Care Relief Begins Today" is one of four profiles the Times featured on the front of the National section to celebrate the day many of its regulations (the Times calls ...

Not Even Conservatives 'Seduced' By Colorado's 'Extreme,' 'Terrifying' Tax Cuts

According to reporter Dan Frosch, tax cuts on the ballot in Colorado are "terrifying," even for conservatives who are usually "seduced" by them: "For politicians and civic groups, even those who ...

Friedman Chided for Idealizing China - By the Chinese

Thomas Friedman: "Some of my Chinese friends chide me for overidealizing China. I tell them: 'Guilty as charged.'"

The Times Celebrates 40 Years of Op-Ed Page With Anti-Bush Hack Joe Wilson

The page that gave you the timeless prose of Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman celebrates with a video of serial misleader Joe Wilson talking about his notoriously flawed anti-war, anti-Bush op-ed ...

An Inconvenient Followup - NYT Loved Director's Al Gore Apocalypse Movie, But Finds 'Waiting for Superman' Exaggerated

The Times loved director Davis Guggenheim's Al Gore jeremiad "An Inconvenient Truth," with the Times' chief movie critic calling it "a necessary movie." But Trip Gabriel found early detractors for ...

Small Business Hit By Tax Hike on 'The Rich'? NYT Says It's Just a Myth

Reporter David Kocieniewski rejects "conservative advocacy" concerns that a tax hike would cripple small business" "Despite that emotional appeal, Internal Revenue Service statistics indicate that ...

Obama On Attack Against 'Extreme' Tea Party Taking Over G.O.P.

Jackie Calmes and Michael Shear don't stint when it came to sticking unflattering labels on the Tea Party: "The Democratic strategist said voters did not now see much threat to them from a ...

GOP Faces Hurdles on Obama-Care Repeal: 'The Law Responds to a Genuine Need' and 'Saves Money'

Health reporter Robert Pear passes along some questionable, out-dated "hurdles" that he claims stand in the way of a repeal of Obama-care: "The law responds to a genuine need....The health care ...

NY Times Tea Party Book Author Zernike: Tea Party All About 'Us vs. Them' (Poor, Blacks, Illegals, etc.)

New York Times reporter Kate Zernike agrees the Tea Party has some roots in the George Wallace for President campaign: "This is why people again have trouble separating race and the Tea Party ...

Mayor Bloomberg Seeks to Bolster 'Center'...By Supporting Joe Sestak and Lincoln Chafee?

The Times leads Sunday with the soothing "moderation" of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg against harmful Tea Party anger: "In an election year when anger and mistrust have upended races across the ...

Times Reporters Advise GOP To Keep Its Distance From Tea Party, Democrats to Mock It

Scoping out Republican party prospects, Kate Zernike condescends to the Tea Party: "So you're a Republican candidate and you want to take advantage of the Tea Party energy that jolted once-sleepy ...

Tea Party Book Author Zernike: Tea Party All About 'Us vs. Them' (Poor, Blacks, Illegals, etc.)

Kate Zernike agrees the Tea Party has some roots in the George Wallace for President campaign: "This is why people again have trouble separating race and the Tea Party movement, because there is ...

The New York Times Laments Disappearance of Moderate Republicans (Again, and Again)

The Times rehashes a lament that goes back at least 14 years: "The few remaining Republican centrists in the Senate were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Michael N. Castle of Delaware, a longtime ...

Book Review: NYT Reporter Kate Zernike, Tea Party Book Author, Still Finding Racism

In "Boiling Mad," her new book on the Tea Party, New York Times reporter Kate Zernike proves she still has a sharp eye for Tea Party racism, no matter how unsubstantiated, blaming the movement for ...

Book Review: Kate Zernike, Tea Party Book Author, Still Finding Racism Everywhere

In "Boiling Mad," her new book on the Tea Party, reporter Kate Zernike proves she still has a sharp eye for Tea Party racism, no matter how unsubstantiated, blaming the Tea Party movement for any ...

Times Reporters Let Their Liberal Instincts Loose on Podcast

Jeff Zeleny on why people think Obama is a Muslim: "Rush Limbaugh talks about it all the time." No, he doesn't. And financial writer Floyd Norris reminisces: "One thing that struck me about this ...