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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NYT Celebrates Occupy's Attack on 'Unfettered Capitalism' in Hong Kong....But Does It Actually Exist There?

New York Times reporter Neil Gough pumps up the Occupy movement in the alleged capital of "pure...unfettered capitalism," an administrative region of Hong Kong, but then contradicts himself: "At ...

NYT's Weisman Laments 'Limits of Campaign Finance Rules' That Mean Democrats Sometimes Lose Elections

By "advocacy groups" and "campaign finance watchdogs," the New York Times Jonathan Weisman means partisan liberals and Democrats: "To Democrats and some campaign finance watchdogs eager to force ...
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'Devout Capitalist" and NYT Editor Bill Keller Defends ObamaCare Against GOP 'Lies'

Keller on the idea that Obamacare is a federal takeover of health insurance: "The word for that is 'lie.' The main thing the law does is deliver 30 million new customers to the private ...
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Occupy Movement All Over the Sunday NYTimes, from Three-Kid Summer Camp to Police at the Pool

Sunday's New York Times celebrated the left-wing Occupy movement in four separate stories, including this peculiar compliment to the police from Ginia Bellafante: "In the era of stop-and-frisk ...

'Conservative Christian' vs. 'Doctors and Women’s Rights Advocates' on Abortion in Arizona

Veteran New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm again dismisses concerns about fetal pain during abortion as unscientific, while slapping ideological labels on abortion opponents and tilting his ...
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NYT's Timothy Egan: 'People Who Like Sex...Believe in Science' Won't Vote for Romney

Reporter turned columnist Timothy Egan: "But Romney has a longer list of people who may be disinclined to vote for him. Latinos. Gays. Gay soldiers. People who were bullied as kids. Dog ...
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Bill Keller, Former NYTimes Editor, Says Voter ID Laws Only About 'Disenfranchising' Democrats

Bill Keller, former executive editor for the Times, on voter ID laws: "Well I think what you're getting at is this is not about voter fraud. It's about disenfranchising specific constituencies ...
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Former NYT Supreme Court Reporter Greenhouse: 'Breathtaking Radicalism' of 4 Justices Against ObamaCare

Former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse suspects she knows why Roberts may have changed his mind on ObamaCare: "I doubt there was a single reason for the chief justice’s ...
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Former SCOTUS Reporter Linda Greenhouse: 'Breathtaking Radicalism' of 4 Justices Opposed to Obama-Care

Former Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse suspects she knows why Roberts may have changed his mind on Obama-Care: "I doubt there was a single reason for the chief justice’s ...
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Should Romney Deliver 'Powerful Counterpunch' Or 'Shift to Positive Campaign'? NYT Can't Decide

Does the New York Times think Mitt Romney should "leaven his harsh criticism of President Obama" or deliver "powerful counterpunch"? It depends on which Times article you read. A July 12 headline: ...
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NYT's Parker on Black Voters 'Suspicious of Mr. Romney’s Record on Civil Rights and Diversity'

NYT's Ashley Parker hits Romney on faith and obscure state government issues to suggest he's racially suspect: "In recent national polls, Mr. Obama still overwhelming leads Mr. Romney among ...
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Camelot Magic Lives on in France Through Shrine to Pierre Salinger, Enthuses New York Times

Reporter Ralph Blumenthal on Pierre Salinger, Bush-hostile ABC News bureau chief and conspiracy believer: "If the French loved John F. Kennedy, there is a special spot in their hearts for Pierre ...
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Playing Into Obama's Populist Pose, NYTimes Obsesses Over Romney's Vacation Digs, Rich Donors

Times reporter Richard Stevenson delivers a leftist lecture: "In an era of populist backlashes against the 1 percent and increased concern about the economic and social ramifications of income ...
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NYT: Free Publicity for Lefty Protest of GOP 'Ultrarich;' Obama's Bigger Hollywood Haul Didn't Even Make Print

Tons of free publicity for a left-wing anti-Koch Brothers protest in the NYT: "The event at Mr. Koch's home drew about 200 protesters, who in brochures promoting their demonstration said that ...
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Another Win for Occupy Wall Street: Cute Commercials for McDonald's, Vegas Vacations

And you thought it was just a cute ad for Las Vegas: "Marketers are adopting the theme of workers’ rights at a time when unions themselves are confronting declines in membership and influence. ...
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New York Times Again Falsely Claims Audience Shouted 'Let Him Die!' During GOP Debate

The Times Sunday magazine (with the help of Mike Huckabee) uses a liberal myth about a Republican debate to bash the Republican Party: "During the Republican primary debates, audience members ...
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NYT Editor Gail Collins Vexed by Conservative Texas in New Book: 'Bloodthirsty' Tom DeLay

An outside reviewer for the New York Times found former editor, now columnist Gail Collins' book-length Texas attack unconvincing, over the top, and factually inaccurate "....the problem with ...
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Spinning Hard, NYT's Mark Landler Spies 'Glimmers of a Resurgence' for Economy and Obama in Rust Belt

Mark Landler whose reporting on Obama is getting more gushy as the election nears, shone his journalistic flashlight on any slivers of good economic news he could find and suggested they would ...
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NYT Editor Gail Collins Vexed by Conservative Texas in New Book: 'Bloodthirsty' Tom DeLay

An outside reviewer for the Times found Gail Collins' book-length Texas attack unconvincing and over the top: "....the problem with this book is one that has dogged other outsiders’ accounts: ...
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PLO Terrorist Yassir Arafat Just a 'Father Figure of Palestinian Nationalism,' Says New York Times

Deceased Palestinian Authority leader Yassir Arafat, who presided over a five-year Intifada against Israeli citizens, is not a terrorist according to the New York Times, merely a leader who left a ...