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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10/1/2008 12:25 PM ET
More double standards: An Obama ad does "a compelling job" of tying McCain to George Bush, while a Republican ad is confusing and its effectiveness questionable.
10/1/2008 11:39 AM ET
Apparently, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus aren't liberal groups.
9/30/2008 2:43 PM ET
Sentences we finished only because we're being paid to: "Picking up where the 'The View' left off in speaking truth to power..."
9/30/2008 1:30 PM ET
A fact-checking flub by Larry Rohter: "Mr. McCain's claim has been called 'simply false' by the nonpartisan FactCheck.org." vs. FactCheck.org: "McCain was right..."
9/30/2008 1:28 PM ET
Larry Rohter on Saturday claimed McCain was "simply false" to say that Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000 a year. On Tuesday, he wrote: "The bottom line is that if passed ...
9/30/2008 12:15 PM ET
Reporter Jackie Calmes: "...the House Republicans made the difference. Their mutiny captured just how much the Republican Party has changed from its 19th-century roots as the party of business and ...
9/29/2008 2:18 PM ET
Alessandra Stanley: "[McCain] repeated that he had not been elected Miss Congeniality of the Senate - some viewers might have wondered if he had forgotten that he had already used that metaphor."
9/29/2008 10:00 AM ET
A lead editorial bizarrely chastises McCain for wanting America to win in Iraq.
9/26/2008 1:58 PM ET
Grudging acknowledgement that John McCain called for more regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: "Senator John McCain is correct: He warned two years ago that Congress should rein in Fannie Mae ...
9/26/2008 1:29 PM ET
A Times editor arrives two weeks later to a left-wing rumor: "When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and ...
9/26/2008 10:53 AM ET
Rectifying the paper's pro-Obama tilt, the Times takes Obama to task in a front-page story on his campaign's misleading ads.
9/25/2008 12:48 PM ET
Plus: Clarence Thomas, Self-Hating Conservative Black?
9/25/2008 11:48 AM ET
Kate Zernike: "Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska completed Day 2 of her foreign policy tutorials on Wednesday..."
9/24/2008 12:48 PM ET
Campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb: "Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization....willful disregard of the truth."
9/24/2008 11:55 AM ET
The Times throws out the L-word against a group that wants to air a commercial accusing Obama of being a proponent of abortion on demand. But Obama has pledged to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, ...
9/24/2008 11:54 AM ET
Do mention the war: "Some are suspicious of Mr. Paulson's characterizations, finding in his warnings and demands for extraordinary powers a parallel with the way the Bush administration gained ...
9/24/2008 10:21 AM ET
The paper reverses its previous opinion that the show was "generally friendly territory for politicians." Plus: Barbara Walters claims "I don't think anyone knows my political opinions." Really now?
9/23/2008 2:32 PM ET
Reporter Katharine Seelye warns that John McCain is "handy with the rhetorical shiv" in debates and tells Obama to expect to have his views distorted by McCain.
9/23/2008 12:05 PM ET
Clay Waters detailed the paper's liberal slant for Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer on Tuesday morning.
9/23/2008 10:17 AM ET
The McCain campaign again makes the New York Times an issue: "It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, ...
