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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Republicans "Have Vilified...Nancy Pelosi"

A Times blogger also suggests that Pelosi may actually be "far to the right of many of her constituents."

Endorsing "Basically Moderate" Ned Lamont for Senate

But just what is the anti-war, pro-abortion Lamont "moderate" on? The Times won't say.

Helene Cooper Cracks on Bush's Naive North Korean Policy

Stop the presses! Jimmy Carter is criticizing Bush on North Korea.

"Past Shenanigans" on Election Day Discouraging Blacks from Voting

Is the GOP engaging in voter suppression in black communities?

Ad Mocking Harold Ford "A Racist Appeal to Tennessee Voters"

"The ad, resonating with the miscegenation taboos of Old South politics, may or may not be the nadir in the low-blow salvos now assailing the nation."

Iraq: Bush's Vietnam?

Reporter John Broder resurrects a liberal (and NYT) talking point: "The moment is reminiscent of early 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson convened a panel of wise men to advise him on the ...

New Jersey's "Bold and Sweeping" Gay Marriage Decision

Compared to New York State's anti-gay marriage decision this summer, which a Times' news story called "a shocking insult to gay rights groups."

Anti-Harold Ford Jr. "Ad Seen as Playing to Racial Fears"

The Times fronts the controversy over a supposedly racist campaign ad mocking Rep. Harold Ford Jr. for attending a party for Playboy magazine.

Former NYT Editor Hedges Thinks Jews Making Too Much of Holocaust

"...the real lesson of the Holocaust...is that the line between the victim and the victimizer is razor-thin."

Stanley's Strange Take on Michael J. Fox's Misleading Campaign Ads

Huh? "If Mr. Fox did forgo medication for the advertisement as Mr. Limbaugh suggested, it could hardly be considered fraudulent: if anything, masking the extent of the disease's ravages is the ...

Shoving the Political Spectrum to the Right

The Times plumps for the "largely conservative voting records" of two centrist-at-best Georgia Democrats.

NYT Finally Asks: Why Isn't the GOP Benefiting from the Strong Economy?

Eduardo Porter asks the question but misses one of the obvious answers: Media bias, including the slant of his own paper.

Public Editor Recants: Times Was Wrong to Expose Terrorist Surveillance Program

But some Times critics find Barney Calame's mea culpa lame: "While it's a close call now, as it was then, I don't think the article should have been published."

Anticipating a Democratic Blowout

The Democrats (and the Times) are getting giddy together as November 7 looms.

Signs of the Coming Bush Apocalypse

Also: Former bureau chief Chris Hedges went wild on Christian "fascism," plus Frank Rich's "pathology."

Ted Kennedy: NYT Co. "The Premier Brand In Journalism"

The liberal senator from Massachusetts criticizes the Times for failing to live up to its sterling reputation - in his eyes, anyway - in its dealing with The Boston Globe. The Times itself fails ...

Relishing Conservative Feuds on the Front Page

David Kirkpatrick answers the question: How many "conservatives" can fit inside a front-page story?

Fervent Friedman Foils "Foolish Market Worshipers Led By Dick Cheney..."

Columnist Thomas Friedman pits "...foolish market worshipers" that "insist markets will take care of everything" vs "wiser" policy makers.

An Editor Attacks Linda Greenhouse's Critics

Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney: "Linda Greenhouse has faced, for one paragraph in a very thoughtful and stimulating speech that she thought she was giving to a closed audience, attacks on ...

Former Times Bureau Chief Attacks "Fascist" Christian Right

Former Times Bureau Chief Chris Hedges on the Christian Right: "This is a potent and a ruthless mass movement that would like to dismantle American democracy." And that's not the most extreme ...