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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2/13/2008 12:51 PM ET
Paul Krugman fires back on Hillary-hating Obama-supporters: "As I've said, you've been played like a fiddle by journalists who hate the Clintons, and just make stuff up about how evil they are."
2/12/2008 4:12 PM ET
This week's "politics" issue of the book review follows a pattern: Liberal reviewers praising liberal books and dismissing conservative ones.
2/12/2008 11:22 AM ET
The liberal publishing house behind Philip Shenon's book on 9-11 is pushing left-wing talking points to sell it, such as: "Why the Commission did not expose Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's egregious ...
2/12/2008 9:43 AM ET
Columnist Paul Krugman alienates his liberal allies: "I'm not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality."
2/11/2008 2:26 PM ET
The thin-skinned Times calls Bush's mild words in his speech at a conservative conference an "assault."
2/11/2008 1:49 PM ET
Liberal magazine writer turned Times reporter writes on conservative activists: "They still see themselves as indispensable kingmakers without whom no Republican can win the nomination, let alone ...
2/11/2008 10:19 AM ET
The paper's coverage of Mitt Romney since Thanksgiving was more negative than positive by a ratio of over 3-1. John McCain? 25-1 positive.
2/8/2008 5:00 PM ET
Another former Times reporter, Timothy Egan (pictured), unleashes on Mitt Romney and Rush Limbaugh.
2/8/2008 12:07 PM ET
Special bonus insult in Friday's editorial: Republicans concerned about illegal immigration are "xenophobic."
2/8/2008 12:04 PM ET
Gail Collins makes this astute observation: "Meanwhile, the Republican far right has fallen into a remarkable snit over John McCain's march to the nomination. Rush Limbaugh is virtually gnawing ...
2/7/2008 3:46 PM ET
In an interview on his book on the 9-11 commission, Philip Shenon defends Clinton's disgraced national security adviser Sandy "Burglar," as well as Clinton partisan Richard Clarke.
2/6/2008 3:20 PM ET
The Republican Party and Mitt Romney come in for more abuse by the Times' always classy ex-executive editor Howell Raines.
2/6/2008 2:18 PM ET
A stark double standard on pinning ideological labels on the parties.
2/5/2008 2:57 PM ET
Peter Goodman revives a golden oldie in his dismissive take on American spending habits: "The Me Decade was declared dead in the recession of the early 1980s, only to yield to the Age of Greed and ...
2/5/2008 1:56 PM ET
To reporter Michael Luo, Mitt Romney is a "buttoned-down multimillionaire" and a "one-time leveraged-buyout artist" who is "lobbing conservative grenades once again."
2/5/2008 12:57 PM ET
A Times' reporter's claim of sharply reduced domestic spending is contradicted on the same page of his own paper: "...this year's budget limits the growth of all federal programs, other than the ...
2/5/2008 12:29 PM ET
An incident where Hillary Clinton was called a "bitch" in front of John McCain has gotten far more attention than when someone laid into "Bush the bastard" at a Hillary event.
2/4/2008 3:20 PM ET
According to Elisabeth Bumiller, the McCain campaign collapsed last summer because he ran to the right on tax cuts and religion - but she doesn't mention how McCain's stance on amnesty for ...
2/4/2008 3:08 PM ET
"In Wal-Mart we trust? After years of criticism that it was a poor corporate citizen and miserly employer, maybe."
2/4/2008 2:58 PM ET
No liberal label for an Atlanta meeting in which attendees "hoped they could pool their resources and voices to push for universal health coverage, or to fight global warming."
