The story of Michele Bachmann’s migraines has been the sensation of the week in the political world, but the Media Research Center has had trouble dealing with one inconvenient fact: The story…
Tag: Clay Waters
Flashback: When The MRC Whitewashed News of the World Scandal
Over the past week, the Media Research Center has been utterly silent about the planet’s biggest journalism scandal: the widespread phone-hacking conducted by the British newspaper News of the World, a scandal…
MRC Loves Conservatives’ Insults Hurled At NY Times Editor
In a July 6 MRC TimesWatch post, Clay Waters reveled in the insults heaped upon New York Times editor Bill Keller in a recent letters section, touting how “The latest edition of…
MRC Unhappy That NY Times Reported The Truth
Clay Waters uses a May 23 MRC TimesWatch post to complain that the New York Times “did its best to paint Israel’s conservative, pro-security prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as being disingenuous and…
Waters’ Slobbering Review of Anti-NY Times Book
In a Feb. 11 MRC TimesWatch post, Clay Waters serves up a laughably fawning review of William McGowan’s anti-New York Times book, “Gray Lady Down.” Waters hyperbolically calls it “a carefully researched…
Clay Waters Doesn’t Know What Amnesty Means
Clay Waters asserts in a Feb. 9 MRC TimesWatch item that the New York Times is on an “Amnesty-for-Illegals Hobby Horse,” claiming that the DREAM Act “would have granted amnesty to hundreds…
MRC’s Waters Tries to Pretend NYT Didn’t Undercut His Reason for Existence
In writing about New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt’s final column in a June 16 MRC TimesWatch item, Clay Waters does a poor job of pretending that Hoyt didn’t blow Waters’…
MRC Blinded By ‘Name That Party’
We’ve previously noted the Media Research Center’s enthusiasm for playing “Name That Party” with the media even when it violates those same rules. The MRC’s Clay Waters reminds us just how anal…
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Media Matters’ Simon Maloy catches Clay Waters making the claim, in a July 27 NewsBusters post and TimesWatch item, that the New York Times had dismissed the birthers as conspiracy theorists, but…
MRC’s Labeling Obsession
How distorted is the Media Research Center’s obsession with political labels? A July 5 entry on the MRC-run Times Watch (“Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times”)…