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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Lefty Insight from NYT Sunday Review: 'Someone Is Going to Win, Someone Is Going to Lose,' Unless They Tie

After dropping the intellectual gem that "barring an Electoral College tie, someone is going to win, someone is going to lose," Emory professor Drew Westen writes in the Times Sunday Review: "A ...
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NYTimes' Matt Bai: Obama's Factually Challenged Memoir Sign of 'Narrative Sophistication...Novelistic Instinct'

Through sympathetic alchemy, New York Times Magazine political writer Matt Bai managed to transform Barack Obama's factually loose biography as a sign of "his narrative sophistication, his ...
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NYT's Calmes Keeps 'Stimulus' Fires Burning for Obama, Versus 'Crude' Argument by Romney Supporter

For years Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes has loyally defended Obama's "stimulus," and she keeps the flame burning on the eve of the election in a story with this photo caption in her ...
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NYTimes: Economic 'Recovery' Helping 'Energized, Fortified' Obama Down Stretch As Romney 'Misleads' in Ad

The New York Times certainly leaned "Forward!" for Barack Obama's reelection in its campaign coverage over the weekend, in both word choice and photo choice. And New Jersey's Republican governor ...
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Krugman Defends Nate Silver From 'Trolls," Says Will Take 'Miracle' for Romney to Win

Arrogant New York Times columnist Paul Krugman goes on the record about the Romney campaign's chances: "They clearly know that it will take a miracle -- sorry, a last-minute surge -- to prevail on ...
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NYT Poll Analyst Nate Silver Sees Golden Path for Obama Tuesday Night

Times' poll analyst Nate Silver extremely confident about Obama's chances for reelection on Monday morning: "Obama unlikely to win by anything like his post-DNC margins. But Romney has no ...

NYTimes Star Poll Analyzer Nate Silver Offers to Bet $2,000 on Obama Win, Chided by Public Editor

New York Times' star poll analyzer and statistician Nate Silver continues to give hope to Democrats, and he's getting more confident as the election draws closer. After a heated debate on ...
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NYTimes Takes Sandy By Storm to Boost Obama-Christie Partnership and Climate Change

As Election Day loomed, the New York Times made the most of Chris Christie bonding with President Obama over the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Thursday's front page featured Mark Landler and ...
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New York Times' Sunday Review Goes Wall-to-Wall for Obama's Re-Election

New York Times Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal's Sunday Review was wall-to-wall for Obama this week, with two left-wing op-eds supporting Obama on the front page, a full-page ...
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NYT's Jensen Finds Another Left-Wing Hero to Gush Over: Sally Kohn of FoxNews.com Fame

Times reporter Elizabeth Jensen profiles yet another left-wing hero: "...[Sally] Kohn, who also writes for Salon.com and posts on Twitter constantly, won national attention with her ...
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New York Times' Sunday Review Goes Wall-to-Wall for Obama's Re-Election

Times Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal's Sunday Review was wall-to-wall for Obama this week, with two left-wing op-eds supporting Obama on the front page, a full-page endorsement of ...
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Hi, Ho, Nate Silver: NYTimes' Star Pollster Bolsters Fading Democratic Spirits Once Again

The closer Election Day looms, the more often New York Times' golden-boy pollster Nate Silver is thrust from his nytimes.com home into the print edition, with a poll analysis rallying the ...
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New York Times Takes Shots at Richard Mourdock Two Days in a Row: Could Cost GOP the Senate

New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman made Friday's front page on the Republicans' uphill struggles to take over the Senate, and got in a second day of shots against Indiana Republican ...
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Hi, Ho, Nate Silver: NYT's Star Pollster Bolsters Fading Democratic Spirits Once Again

The closer Election Day looms, the more often New York Times' golden-boy pollster Nate Silver is thrust from his nytimes.com home into the print edition, with a poll analysis rallying the ...
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NYTimes Eager to Paint Mourdock Rape Comment as 'Dilemma' Making It 'Difficult' for Romney

New York Times reporters Jonathan Weisman and Michael Cooper both suggested Mitt Romney would be hurt by controversial comments on rape made by Indiana's Republican Senate candidate Richard ...
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Matt Bai Calls Bill Clinton a 'Centrist' and Suggests Rush Limbaugh Is 'Far Right'

New York Times political reporter Matt Bai: "Mr. Clinton was able to set himself up against ideological extremism so successfully because he really was a centrist deal-maker, and everyone knew ...
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New York Times Relegates Libya Email Bombshell to Page A5 Under Dull Headline

Buried at the bottom of page A5 in the Times: A report on leaked emails showing the White House had intelligence suggesting the Libya attacks were planned terrorism, not a spontaneous reaction ...
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NYT's Bronner Laments 'There Was No Criticism of Israel', While Kershner Whines About Romney Support There

Where was the criticism of Israel? That was the plaint from the Times former Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner in his review of Monday's presidential debate on foreign policy: "And there was no ...
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NYT's Kantor Implies Obama Victim of Racist Attacks From Tea Party, Newt Gingrich, Rep. Joe Wilson

New York Times reporter and sympathetic Obama biographer Jodi Kantor implied that various insults suffered by President Obama were in fact racist attacks, in a Sunday front-page profile. Plus: ...
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NYT's Public Editor Questions 'Unwanted Baggage' of Incoming CEO Mark Thompson After BBC Coverup Scandal

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan had some tough questions on the subject of the NYT Co.'s incoming chief executive, Mark Thompson, on what he knew about the coverup of a pedophilia ...