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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The Times Scours the Country, Can't Locate Liberals

Just like in 2004, the Times finds loads of conservatives to label, but very few liberals around.

"Conservative" Rep. John Murtha?

An anti-war hero to liberals is "conservative" in the Times' eyes.

Paul Krugman's Pre-Election Paranoia

"And if you think the timing of the Saddam verdict was coincidental, I've got a terrorist plot against the Brooklyn Bridge to sell you."

The Times' November Surprise Backfires

Burying the lead: "Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its ...

Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics?

"Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is."

Correcting Zernike's Misleading Kerry "Joke" Story

The Times admits its story on Kerry's apology was wrong.

Is Pelosi's Liberalism Only a Republican "Caricature"?

Zernike also writes today: "For Republicans and the White House, Mr. Kerry's 'botched joke' Monday was manna from Massachusetts, that reliable redoubt of liberal caricatures..."

Kakutani on Bush-Defender John Yoo's "Preposterous" New Book

Leading book critic Michiko Kakutani again displays her refusal to debate conservative arguments, merely dismissing them as prima facie ridiculous.

NYT's Political Blog "The [Democratic] Caucus"

Editor Kate Phillips: "And with the controversy over Senator John Kerry's 'botched joke' presumably (please) leaving the airwaves and the front pages after today...."

"Centrist" Lieberman, but "Anti-War" (Not Liberal) Lamont

More labeling bias by Raymond Hernandez, who devoted much of his past reporting to positioning Hillary Clinton as a moderate.

Reporter Kate Zernike Helps Kerry Out Again

Zernike somehow misses what everyone in America into politics already knows: Kerry's "flubbed joke" didn't mention Bush at all.

Still Spinning for Kerry's "Stuck In Iraq" Gaffe

The Times suggests that attacking Kerry and defending U.S. troops is a bad strategy for Bush.

Barack Obama Only "Sounds Like" a Liberal?

Sen. Obama gets the Hillary Clinton centering treatment.

Richard Berke Bashes Blogs that Criticize the Times

Conventional liberal wisdom reigns at a Times Talks gathering on the Upper West Side, where Assistant Managing Editor Richard Berke gripes about "mean-spirited" blogs that interfere with reporters ...

Spinning Kerry's Insult of U.S. Troops

"Part of Mr. Kerry's outrage may arise from memories of 2004, when a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth raised allegations, never substantiated, that he had exaggerated his wartime exploits."

Tough Times at the Times: Staff Space Gets Pinched

That 39% decline in profits last quarter, coming after a string of bad news quarters and disastrous decline in its stock price, has finally started to hit the New York Times where it lives: in its ...

How Dare Republicans Treat Democrats "With Disdain"

But is it OK when Pelosi constantly accuses the GOP of being "unconcerned about money, truth or decency"?

"What the Bush Administration Calls the War on Terror"

Does Anita Gates believe there's a terror threat?

"Moderate Republicans" As "Endangered Species"

But what about the "moderate Democrats" overwhelmed by liberals in their party?

Willie Horton Redux: GOP "Stoke[s] Subliminal Racist Fears" in Tennessee

Alessandra Stanley writes that an RNC ad mocking Harold Ford Jr. is "seen as racist" and that the GOP "tried to stoke subliminal racist fears with the infamous Willie Horton ad...."