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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Zernike, Aided by Politicized NAACP Report, Again Ventures Out to Find Tea Party Racism

"The nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization" teamed up with an unlabeled left-wing group to accuse the Tea Party of racism two weeks before an election, and the Times' Tea ...

Meet the Global Warming Skeptics: Ignorant Tea Party Fundamentalists, Oil Company Shills

John Broder again insults those who doubt the view that man is causing the earth's temperature to rise with harmful results, setting up two fundamentalist Christians and skeptics as inviting ...

NY Times Reporter Herszenhorn Finds 'Simplistic' GOP Anti-Spending Arguments on Campaign Trail

New York Times reporter David Herszenhorn twice chided G.O.P. campaign rhetoric on spending as "simplistic," dubiously claimed that repealing Obama-care would cost money, and lamented that the ...

Herszenhorn Finds 'Simplistic' GOP Anti-Spending Arguments on Campaign Trail

David Herszenhorn twice chided G.O.P. campaign rhetoric on spending as "simplistic," dubiously claimed that repealing Obama-care would cost money, and lamented that the price of extending the Bush ...

Poor John Dingell Faces Nasty Campaign and Angry 'Bellowing' - Michele Bachmann a 'Polarizing Republican'

Double standards: The Times lets Democratic congressional baron John Dingell lament the nasty political climate that means "He now faces a wealthy cardiologist with Tea Party leanings, and ...

The Stories New York Times Liberals Tell Themselves About the Tea Party

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat summarizes four comforting stories liberals tell themselves about the Tea Party - all four of which have been told by Times reporters to their readership: #1 ...

NY Times' Michael Shear: Only Conservatives Commit Crazy, Controversial Campaign Clunkers

A long New York Times story by reporter Michael Shear almost totally ignores Democratic campaign controversies but found at least 10 incidents worth mentioning on the Republican side, involving ...

Michael Shear: Only Conservatives Commit Crazy, Controversial Campaign Clunkers

A long nytimes.com story by Michael Shear almost ignores Democratic campaign controversies but found at least 10 incidents worth mentioning on the Republican side.

The Times Helpfully Reminds Voters of Obama's $7-a-Week-Tax Cut

Michael Cooper tries to get out the word on Obama's tax cuts before it's too late: "What if a president cut Americans' income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed?....At Pig Pickin' and ...

The Stories New York Times Liberals Tell Themselves About the Tea Party

Times columnist Ross Douthat summarizes four comforting stories liberals tell themselves about the Tea Party - all four of which have been told by Times reporters to their readership: #1 The Tea ...

Jill Abramson Links 2010 GOP Giving to Nixon, Watergate Era of Illegality

Jill Abramson finds the link between Republican-affiliated groups in 2010 and the scourge of Watergate: "But the fund-raising practices that earned people convictions in Watergate - giving direct ...

Frank Rich Hits for the Cycle in Smearing GOP Figures As Encouraging Racism and Violence

Frank Rich goes from Carl Paladino, to Glenn Beck, to Sarah Palin, and back to Paladino in a free-form smear attempt that blames conservatives for past, present, and future violence: "But in the ...

Psst! IRS! Over Here! Luo Again Hints IRS Could Pry Into Campaign Financing By Pro-GOP Groups

Michael Luo tries again: "Problems with the I.R.S. could lead to tax penalties and revocation of tax-exempt status. But nonprofit groups engaging heavily in express advocacy could also run into ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - The Tea Party's 'War on Competence and Professionalism'

Plus: Frank Rich on the "useful idiots" of the GOP, and the non-partisan warnings of Obama the Wise.

The Tea Party's 'War on Competence and Professionalism'

Plus: Frank Rich on the Useful Idiots of the GOP

Go to Vegas, Meet Obama, Don't Mention Obama Criticizes Blowing Cash in Vegas

Reporter Michael Shear sounded pretty excited in his blog post about an Obama fundraising trip to Las Vegas: "Democratic Contest: Go to Vegas, Meet Obama." But Shear left out that Obama chided ...

Putting a Damper on Republican Takeover Dreams

Reporters Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny offer some seriously strained hypotheticals, like "last-minute missteps," in the defense of the idea that Democrats could hold on to control of the House of ...

Palin Still Knee-Jerk Source of Mirth for Liberal Times Reporters

"Was it a Sarah Palin moment? Christine O'Donnell, the Republican Senate candidate in Delaware, stumbled during the debate tonight when asked for a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that she ...

More Convenient Front-Page Fretting in the New York Times About 'Anonymous' GOP Donors

Taking a cue from liberal interest groups and the Obama White House, the New York Times puts some supposedly scary stuff on its front page: "Like many of the other groups with anodyne names ...

More Convenient Front-Page Fretting About 'Anonymous' GOP Donors

Taking a cue from liberal interest groups and the Obama White House, the Times puts some supposedly scary stuff on its front page: "Like many of the other groups with anodyne names engaged in the ...