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 Leaves Mao's Atrocities Out of Obituary for Physicist Turned Maoist Joan Hinton

The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over ...

The Times Left Mao's Atrocities Out of Obituary for Physicist Turned Maoist Joan Hinton

The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over ...

A Golden State of Bias: Two Stories on Fiorina's Harmless 'Classic Campaign Gaffe,' None on Jerry Brown's Nazi Rant

The Times has devoted two stories to Republican Senate primary winner Carly Fiorina mocking Sen. Barbara Boxer's hair, but has yet to mention Jerry Brown comparing his Republican opponent for ...

Patricia Cohen Stays on the Intolerant Intellectual Conservative Beat

Patricia Cohen says the conservative journal Commentary "has an us-versus-them view of the world and has been unforgiving of family members who publicly air disagreements. Mr. Balint, however, ...

Columnist: GOP Women Won 'While Espousing Far-Right, Far-Out Ideas'

Columnist Peter Applebome, not so cheerful about Republican women winning big last Tuesday: "Last week's primaries were a great moment for women in American politics, an inspiring reminder that ...

Another NYT Reporter Smears Nevada GOP Candidate Sharron Angle: 'She Is So Extreme'

Another day, another Times reporter tarring Tea Party candidate and Republican Senate primary winner Sharron Angle of Nevada as "extreme." Jackie Calmes also claims Angle gives Democrats new hope ...

Times Jumps on Fiorina's 'Classic Campaign Gaffe' That 'Could Haunt Her Throughout the Campaign'

Jennifer Steinhauer does her best to pump up into a scandal an open-mic gaffe by California Republican Senate primary winner Carly Fiorina.

The Times Devotes Another Full Story to Latest Micro-Protest Against Illegal Immigration Crackdown

The Times can't get enough of these tiny protests in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants, while giving cursory coverage to far larger conservative protests like the Tea Party rally on ...

It Begins: Nevada GOP Winner and Tea Party Favorite a 'Far-Right Conservative' Says NY Times

NYT reporter Jennifer Steinhauer take on Sharron Angle, winner of the Nevada Republican primary: "...firmly to the right of most mainstream Nevada voters...Among her detractors and her supporters ...

Feminist Columnist Reacts to GOP Women Winning in California By Whining About Campaign Finance Reform

Not a word about female progress in GOP politics after Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina advanced in California primary elections for governor and senator. Instead, a sour lecture on campaign finance ...

Matt Bai Raises the Bar for G.O.P. Success; Election Already 'Mightily Out of Control'

Matt Bai is already predicting recriminations if the G.O.P. fails to win the House or Senate because of Tea Party activism, and a front-page teaser claimed: "Some critics are already asking ...

It Begins: Nevada GOP Winner and Tea Party Favorite a 'Far-Right Conservative'

Jennifer Steinhauer take on Sharron Angle, winner of the Nevada Republican primary: "...firmly to the right of most mainstream Nevada voters...Among her detractors and her supporters she is known ...

David Leonhardt Stubbornly Pushes for Still More 'Stimulus'

Hooray, hooray, more "stimulus" on the way, says economics writer David Leonhardt: "If there was any doubt that the government could put people to work, at least temporarily, last year's $787 ...

Oh No! Rich Texan 'Allowed' to Give His Money to His Children Instead of IRS

David Kocieniewski writes: "A Texas pipeline tycoon who died two months ago may become the first American billionaire allowed to pass his fortune to his children and grandchildren tax-free."

After Hyping Union Push to Defeat Lincoln in Ark., Times Plays It Straight After Left-Wing Loss

From the Times lead story Wednesday: "Mrs. Lincoln withstood a multi-million-dollar campaign against her from organized labor, environmental groups and liberal advocacy organizations from outside ...

Timothy Egan Calls Tea Party a 'Constitutional Wrecking Crew'

That's before the former reporter lights into the Republican Party and then the majority of Americans who support the new Arizona immigration law: "Poll-testing the Bill of Rights in a troubled ...

Now They Tell Us: 2007 Intelligence Report Declaring Iran Stopped Nuke Program No Longer Reliable

Reporter David Sanger discussed Obama making the case for sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program and mentioned the "great skepticism" around a 2007 report from U.S. intelligence claiming ...

Really? The Times on Obama's 'Buck-Stops-Here Philosophy'

Perennial Bush-basher Obama provided some conservative belly laughs when he told high school graduates not to make excuses or blame others. But the Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg simply relayed ...

Times Again Covers for Left-Wing Honduran Authoritarian Manuel Zelaya, Ally of Hugo Chavez

Marc Lacey claimed: "President Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed by soldiers at the behest of the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court and then illegally bundled out of the country in his ...

Elena Kagan Was Just 'Trying to...Chart a Centrist Course' for Clinton White House?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg examines some of Kagan's papers from her days as a Clinton adviser and finds both Kagan and Clinton to be sensible centrists, even on abortion.