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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Nagourney Finds Yet More Reasons for GOP to Worry, This Time in California

Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney moves to the West Coast but remembered to pack his bias, finding the bad side of California Republican Party candidates being on the strong side of a ...

Linda Greenhouse's 'Feelings of Relief and Joy' on Souter's Apparent Attack on Justice Scalia

The New York Times' former Supreme Court reporter floats away on a David Souter-powered steamcloud of joy, listening to the retired Supreme Court justice's Harvard address criticizing the judicial ...

Linda Greenhouse's 'Feelings of Relief and Joy' on Souter's Apparent Attack on Justice Scalia

The paper's former Supreme Court reporter floats away on a David Souter-powered steamcloud of joy, listening to the retired Supreme Court justice's Harvard address criticizing the judicial ...

Egan to 'Grumpy...Cranky...Bitter' Tea Party Movement: Just Die Already

"...a week ago Senator John McCain threatened a filibuster to keep gay men and lesbians from being able to openly serve their country in uniform. He is a man of his age. Can we just press the ...

Now They Tell Us: Pro-Obama-Care Study By 'Wonderful' Group Now Seen As Dangerously Faulty By NYT

A study advocating cost-cutting of "wasteful" health-care spending, hailed by New York Times reporters for over two years, is revealed as grievously flawed: "The mistaken belief that the Dartmouth ...

Education Reporter Laments 'Hodgepodge' from Lack of Federal Guidance of Education

The paper's education reporter Sam Dillon again worries about the "hodgepodge" that results when states, as opposed to the federal government, control what's taught in schools: "The United States ...

Now They Tell Us: Obama-Care Cost-Cutting Study From Formerly 'Wonderful' Group Now Seen As Dangerously Faulty

A study advocating cost-cutting of "wasteful" health-care spending, hailed by Times reporters for two years, is revealed as grievously flawed: "The mistaken belief that the Dartmouth research ...

Gaza-Based NYT Reporter: Israeli Policies to Blame for Hamas, a 'Reality' Which Must Be 'Engaged'

Former Gaza-based reporter Taghreed El-Khodary grants an interview to left-wing Salon, blaming Israel for the existence of the anti-Jewish terrorist group Hamas and confessing her job at the Times ...

Ethan Bronner Hits Israel's Use of 'Disproportionate Force' Against Flotilla

On Charlie Rose, the paper's Jerusalem bureau chief took on Israel's show of "disproportionate force" against a flotilla stuffed with violent pro-Palestinian "peace activists" attempting to break ...

Times Botches Rachel Corrie Incident

The Times leaves a lot out of its potted history of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist for a group that supported "armed struggle" against Israel whose death was a flashpoint in the ...

Sticking It to Lenders Via 'Homemade Mortgage Modification'

David Streitfeld: "Any moral qualms are overshadowed by a conviction that the banks created the crisis by snookering homeowners with loans that got them in over their heads."

'A Chilling Effect' Among Latino Musicians in Arizona?

Larry Rohter devotes his second story to the major news that some musicians are boycotting Arizona over its new immigration law: "For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music ...

Kristof Characterizes 'Provocateur' Ayaan Hirsi Ali as Bomb-Throwing Anti-Muslim Antagonist

In a condescending review of her memoir "Nomad," Times liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof reduces feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose life has been threatened by radical Islamists, into a mere ...

NYT Early to Party ID When GOP's in Trouble - Democrat Labels Often Never Arrive

The Times let its readers know in the headline and first sentence that politician Mark Kirk, caught exaggerating about his military service, was a Republican. Yet profiles on prominent Democrats ...

Tom Friedman Again Urges Obama Not to Waste Oil Spill 'Disaster,' Hits 'Our Addiction to Oil'

Columnist Friedman back in the saddle of his green hobby-horse: "His most important job, though, is one he has yet to take on: shaping the long-term public reaction to the spill so that we can use ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - 'Mostly Peacefully' Means 'Somewhat Violently' at the Times

Plus: Linda Greenhouse attacks Arizona's "police state" with Nazi comparison, Times columnists see the "bright side" to the Gulf oil spill, and Rush Limbaugh's biographer is accused of "Stockholm ...

'Mostly Peacefully' Means 'Somewhat Violently' at the Times

Plus: "Crackpot" columnist Timothy Egan lambastes "lunatic magnet" Arizona, Linda Greenhouse attacks Arizona's "police state" with Nazi comparison, and Times columnists find bright spots in ...

Arizona Promises of Fairness 'Ring Hollow to Many Latinos'

Randal Archibold finds sober Arizona citizens with serious concerns about the state's new immigration law: "Mr. Ruiz, who spray painted himself white and wrote on his body, Am I reasonably ...

Obama's Latest Rhetorical Triumph: 'I Was Wrong' (Not to Clean House Quicker After Corrupt Bush Administration)

Obama triumphs by blaming Bush? Peter Baker: "President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success ...