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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Overpopulation Chic: Stubborn Americans Averse to Controls on 'Right to Bear Arms Or Children'

Mireya Navarro: "As recently as the 1970s, the subject of population control was less controversial, partly because the baby boom years had given rise to concerns about scarcity of resources, some ...

To the Rescue! 'Obama Tries to Speed Response To Shortages in Vital Medicines'

"...Mr. Obama's order and others he has issued recently reflect his belief in the power of government to improve people's lives. By contrast, top Republican legislators and presidential candidates ...

NYT Editor 'Alarmed' at 'Right Wing' Pushback on Cain Story, Whines About Willie Horton Ad

Andrew Rosenthal, another Times liberal still whining about the Willie Horton ad: "...it was the Republicans who perfected the art of injecting racial fears into modern-day politics (remember ...

NYT Quickly Fronts Vague Cain Charges, Ignored John Edwards Adultery Allegations Almost a Year

While the Times put 15-year-old anonymous accusations of sexual harassment against GOP candidate Herman Cain on the front page just one full day after they surfaced, it waited 10 months before ...

Editor 'Alarmed' at 'Right Wing' Pushback on Cain Story, Whines About Willie Horton Ad

Andrew Rosenthal, another liberal still whining about the Willie Horton ad: "...it was the Republicans who perfected the art of injecting racial fears into modern-day politics (remember Willie ...

The G.O.P. Is Still Doomed on Immigration, Causing 'Significant Political Damage'

Jennifer Steinhauer: "While the Republican presidential campaign trail bristles with talk of moats, militarization and electrified fences when it comes to illegal immigration, the view among some ...

NYT Quickly Fronts Vague Cain Charges, Ignored John Edwards Adultery Allegations Almost a Year

While the Times put 15-year-old anonymous accusations of sexual harassment against GOP candidate Herman Cain on the front page just one full day after they surfaced, it waited 10 months before ...

Porter Latest NYT Staffer to Hail OWS's Fight Against Inequality

Reporter turned editorial board member Eduardo Porter: "Occupiers of Zuccotti Park and other sites around the country have been criticized for the fuzziness of their goals. Their complaint that ...

Times Unleashes 'Vitriol' at NYPD Whose Behavior 'Raises Unsettling Questions'

"A three-year investigation into the police's habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds ...

Worth's Worthless History: Arab Revolt Lacks 'Standard-Bearer' Like Lenin or Mao

Huh? Times writer Robert Worth: Arab revolution lacks "intellectual standard-bearers" like Lenin and Mao that could provide "became symbols of a people's aspirations." It's not the first time ...

NYT Finally Admits (Reluctantly) That Imprisonment Lowers Crime Rate

An editorial finally acknowledged the paper's blinkered liberal failure to connect the seemingly obvious idea that crime falls when more criminals are behind bars, as captured by a notorious 1997 ...

More Melodramatic Coverage from Robertson of Alabama's Crackdown on Illegals

That's one way of putting it. Campbell Robertson reports "The champions of Alabama's far-reaching immigration law have said that it is intended to drive illegal immigrants from the state by making ...

Laughs Ahoy for NYT's OWS-Comedy Coverage: Sometimes 'You Need a Little Knife in the Gut'

Corey Kilgannon relays some "jokes" from an Occupy Wall Street comedy night. Imagine the Times' reaction if it had been a Tea Party gathering. "'You need a little knife in the gut once in a ...

Times Almost Ignores Anti-Cop Violence at Occupy Oakland

The Times virtually ignores anti-cop violence at the Occupy Oakland encampment, in favor of a sympathetic story on a veteran injured at the protest: "For supporters of the Occupy Wall Street ...

Ick: 'For Children's Sake, Taking to the Streets'

How cute: "And so it goes in the second month of Occupy Wall Street, where children are becoming an increasing presence as parents try to seize a 'teachable moment' to enlighten them on matters ...

Reporter's Heated OWS Rhetoric: 'Wealthiest of the Wealthy Control More of the Country's Treasure'

OWS lefties are right, reporter says: "Those numbers suggest that the Occupy Wall Street protesters can make a compelling case when they complain that the economic scales are unfairly tilted ...

Obama Stimulus Vital to Avoid Recession, Calmes Claims

"Should the bill ultimately fail, Democrats believe they at least have the better political argument, and they vow to exploit what they call the Republicans' obstruction in the 2012 campaign. Yet ...

Times Warns Perry Tax Plan Would Send Us Back to 'Drastically Austere'...Clinton Years

Richard Oppel Jr.: "The plan also proposes reducing the scope of the federal government by requiring drastically austere federal budgets - compared with what exists now - that spend no more than ...

NYT Claims Poll Finds America Has Affinity for Lefty OWS Protesters

"The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, to highlight grievances about banks, ...

Puzzlement Over NYT Opinion Editor's 'Petty Fib' on Times' Endorsement of McCain

The Times' Andrew Rosenthal told James Taranto his paper had not endorsed John McCain in the Republican primary in 2008: "We said he was best of BAD choices. No endorsement." So why did other ...