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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Thatcher Hostile NY Times Reporter Sarah Lyall Takes Arbitrary Swipe at Ronald Reagan

Where did that come from? In a discussion on a suspicious anecdote in Tony Blair's memoirs, New York Times reporter Sarah Lyall writes: "[Peter] Morgan told The Daily Telegraph, perhaps Mr. Blair ...

Thatcher-Hostile Reporter Sarah Lyall Takes Arbitrary Swipe at Ronald Reagan

Where did that come from? In a discussion on a suspicious anecdote in Tony Blair's memoirs, reporter Sarah Lyall writes: "[Peter] Morgan told The Daily Telegraph, perhaps Mr. Blair 'had one gin ...

TV Review Slams Glenn Beck Supporters as Racist

Ginia Bellafante lets loose again with uninformed liberal opinion in a TV review: "'We are separatists, not supremacists,' the sedately spoken businessman says. 'We are God-fearing patriots. And ...

Opposition to Mosque Now Like Burning Witches, Interning Japanese-Americans: Kristof

Columnist Nicholas Kristof takes his paranoia all the way: "Screeds against Catholics from the 19th century sounded just like the invective today against the Not-at-Ground-Zero Mosque....we should ...

News: Unlabeled Leftist George Soros Gives $100M to Unlabeled Anti-Israel Group

Stephanie Strom writes an entire favorable article about famous billionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros without mentioning his history of liberal giving and Bush-bashing.

Laurie Goodstein on Clergy Fighting 'Outright Bigotry' of Anti-Mosque Sentiment

Don't call it a mosque: "Proposed Islamic community center" leading to anti-Muslim bigotry, says Laurie Goodstein: "The clergy members said that those responsible for a poisoned climate included ...

Hometown Heartbreak: Mosque Opposition Spreads to Formerly Sophisticated New York City, Laments NY Times

After spending a month assuring readers that most sophisticated New Yorkers are just fine with building a mosque near Ground Zero, the New York Times conducts its own poll and finds New Yorkers ...

Hostile Reporter Kate Zernike Insists 'Tea Party Fervor' Creating Opportunities...for Democrats

More Democratic wishful thinking on the front page. Reporter Kate Zernike helpfully points out several apparent vulnerable Republican candidates backed by the Tea Party: "The battle in Delaware is ...

Laurie Goodstein Translates Mosque Opposition Into Anti-Islamic Bigotry, Hate Crimes

Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein is not taking public opposition to the Ground Zero mosque very well, labeling it straight-up red state bigotry: "[Muslims] said they were scared not as much for ...

Hometown Heartbreak: Mosque Opposition Spreads to Formerly Sophisticated New York City

After spending a month assuring readers that most sophisticated New Yorkers support building a mosque near Ground Zero, the Times conducts its own poll and finds New Yorkers are just as opposed to ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - Kate Zernike Still Smearing Tea Party as Racist

Plus Sheryl Gay Stolberg explains the Ground Zero mosque to the rubes outside Manhattan, and Matt Bai questions the "nativist impulse" behind the mosque's opponents.

Kate Zernike Still Smearing Tea Party as Racist

Plus: Matt Bai blames nativist impulse against Ground Zero mosque opponents, and Obama critics long for return to a white and largely Christian nation.

Double Standards on Playing Video Game Villains? Taliban OK, German Soldiers No

Times video game reviewer Seth Schiesel claimed criticism of a game enabling one to play a Talbian fighter against U.S. troops was based on a misunderstanding of what video games are. But how did ...

Times Downplays Obama's Surge Opposition, Has Yet to Lecture Him on Attending Soldiers' Funerals

The Times downplays Obama's opposition to the successful troop surge in Iraq, and repeats the old smear that Bush "refused to attend soldiers' funerals." Yet the Times no longer brings up the ...

Don't Call Her Ma'am: Natalie Angier's Latest Complaints Against the Male of the Species

Natalie Angier takes on the insulting honorific, then insults men: "Behind the link between 'ma'am' and 'old' is the familiar feminist observation that, whereas a man remains 'mister' and 'sir' ...

Times Watch Tracker Special: Get the Important News You're Missing

Times Watch is just one of several e-mail newsletters produced by the Media Research Center and I'd like to introduce you to a daily one, E-Brief, from the MRC's CNSNews.com news site - where ...

Far-Left Center for Constitutional Rights Promoted to 'Human Rights Group' Once Again

The Times labeling philosophy is out of whack, as far-left group working on behalf of Yemeni terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki is called a "human rights group."

Times Again Blames Cab Driver Stabbing on Protesters Against Ground Zero Mosque

A Muslim cab driver is stabbed by a volunteer for a pro-mosque interfaith group, so the Times editorial page naturally blames the anti-mosque mob: "Already New Yorkers have seen a troubled young ...

Hulse: GOP Senate of 'Accidental Senators,' 'Fire-Breathing Conservatives,' While Dems Are 'Notable Lawmakers'

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse puts his thumb on the partisan seesaw: He sees the possibility of "a cadre of fire-breathing conservatives" coming to power in the Senate in November, much like ...

Oh No! Glenn Beck Rally 'Overwhelmingly White and Largely Middle-Aged'

Reporter Kate Zernike can't quit her obsession over the race (and racism) of the Tea Party, as shown by her descritption of Beck rally attendees: "The overwhelmingly white and largely middle-aged ...