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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Mark Leibovich's Cover Profile of Paul Ryan for NYT Mag Steeped In His Typical Anti-GOP Hostility

Democrat-friendly Times reporter Mark Leibovich's long magazine cover story on vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was steeped in hostility and cynicism he rarely shows in his profiles of ...
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Nate Silver Disses Gallup Poll That 'Turned Out Badly' in 2008, Missing by 4...But So Did the NYT's Poll

The Times young star pollster Nate Silver dismissed the Gallup poll as overrated, noting it turned out badly in 2008, overestimating Obama's win by four points. But so did the New York Times' last ...
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NYTimes TV Critic Alessandra Stanley Didn't See a Single GOP Win During Debate Season

New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley implausibly found not a single victory for Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan in the four debates leading to the presidential election. Even the first ...
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Are Obama and Romney's Views 'Starkly Different' or in Alignment? NYT Front Page Can't Decide

A front-page New York Times photo caption on the thrid and last presidential debate claimed "The two rivals offered starkly different views of the world," but a front-page story suggested "the ...
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Mark Leibovich's Cover Profile of Paul Ryan for NYT Mag Steeped in His Typical Anti-Republican Hostility

Democrat-friendly Times reporter Mark Leibovich's long magazine cover story on vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was steeped in hostility and cynicism he rarely shows in his profiles of ...
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NYT's Excruciatingly Effusive Profile of Pro-Gay Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe, 'the Most Interesting Man in the NFL'

The New York Times falls all over itself praising Minnesota Vikings punter and gay-marriage activist Chris Kluwe, he of the perfect verbal SAT score: "Some in the Minnesota news media, used to ...
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NYTimes Forwards Fog-of-War Excuse for Obama's Botched Libya Response, Ignores His UN Speech

New York Times reporter Eric Schmitt forwards fog-of-war excuses for the Obama administration's botched response to the fatal attacks on Americans in Benghazi. "It would be several days, however, ...
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NYT Ombudsman Defends Against Liberal Bias Charges on Libya; Editor Admits Times Seen 'Tilting Liberal'

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan defended her paper from charges of liberal bias in its coverage of the Benghazi attacks, yet elicited this statement from Managing Editor Susan ...
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NYT's Egan Calls Romney 'Toff' With '1956' Mentality, Spreads Phony Tale of Ryan Washing Clean Dishes

Former Times reporter Timothy Egan: "It’s clear now that the Romney of Denver was no more real than Paul Ryan pretending to wash those already clean dishes for a photo op in a soup kitchen." ...
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A 'Yawning Gap Between the Haves and the Have-Nots,' Laments a New York Times 'News' Story

Times economics reporter Annie Lowrey writes like a liberal op-ed writer: "The yawning gap between the haves and the have-nots -- and the political questions that gap has raised about the plight ...
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NYTimes Ignores Gallup's Romney Lead, Devotes Full Story to Outdated Online Poll of Youth for Obama

The Times' Susan Saulny hypes an outdated online poll of young people as a "lost opportunity" for Mitt Romney, while the paper ignored data from the respected Gallup organization showing Romney ...
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New York Times' Shane Covers for Obama on Libya: Called It 'Act of Terror' Twice in Two Days

More excuses from the Times for Obama on his response to the murders of four Americans in Benghazi. Reporter Scott Shane wrote: "Mr. Obama applied the 'terror' label to the attack in his first ...

Panic at New York Times? Two Lead Editorials Tar Romney as Sexist and Radical

The easily frightened liberals on the New York Times editorial board fancied they heard '50s-style sexism in an utterly reasonable observation made by Mitt Romney during the second debate about ...
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Two NYT Reporters Boast of Obama Leading Romney 'Into a Trap' on Libya, But Romney Was Right

Great minds think alike. New York Times reporter Michael Shear: "Mr. Obama had the look of a man who was watching his rival walk right into a trap." Reporter Helene Cooper, 40 minutes later: "Mr. ...
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NYTimes Videocast Hits Disrespectful, 'Peevish' Romney's 'Serious Gaffe' on Libya -- But Contradicted By Own Editors

Times reporter Michael Barbaro: "Let be go back to something Jackie said, you know, when Mitt Romney announced on national television in a debate that President Obama didn't say the word ...
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Would Controversial Glenn Hubbard Be Treasury Secy 'Disaster' if Romney Wins? Ponders NYT

The New York Times runs a hostile profile by David Segal of Romney economic advisor and Columbia Business School dean Glenn Hubbard, packed with anonymous gripes from Hubbard's (liberal) ...

NYTimes Tries to Boost a Democrat's Chances in 'A Seat for the Taking..." in Congress

Trust the New York Times to provide the "traction" this trailing NY Democratic candidate needs: A Seat for the Taking, but First Seeking Traction." Reporter Michael Grynbaum: "But as [Democrat ...
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Conservative Group Gets Full Labeling Treatment at NYT, but Lefties at SPLC Merely 'Civil-Rights Group'

While the American Family Association is tabled as "a conservative evangelical group" and "a Bible-based cultural watchdog organization" by Times reporter Kim Severson, the lefties at SPLC, who ...
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NYT Reports From Two Weeks Ago on Stephanie Cutter, the Brilliant Mind Behind Obama's 'Big Bird' Attacks

The New York Times admiring profile by Amy Chozick of Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter is a bit behind on current events. It comes off like a snapshot from before Cutter shamelessly ...
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New York Times Columnists Kristof, Krugman Agree: Repealing Obama-Care Would Have a Body Count

Two New York Times' liberal columnists are agreed: Repealing Obama-care would have a massive body count. Paul Krugman: "...many people in America really do die every year because they don’t have ...