Hypocrisy 1, New York Times 0

The "old gray clusterfuck" can write a semi-libelous screed about Al Jazeera with a straight face.

Al Jazeera’s opaque loyalties and motives are as closely scrutinized as its reporting. It is accused of tailoring its coverage to support Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza against their Lebanese and Palestinian rivals. Its reporter in Tunisia became a leading partisan in the uprising there. 

Lemme see, if I changed "Al Jazeera" to "New York Times" and "its reporter in Tunisia" to "Judith Miller," I could write the exact same story about the NYT.

The NYT does note Al Jazeera's power in the recent Palestine papers. But, even there, it can't admit that the NYT itself has been part of why the Palestinian Authority has become a paper tiger at best.

This is why the NYT and the rest of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment is so afraid of what could happen in Egypt.  It's why we say, at the State Department, we can "do business" with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's flunky Omar Suleman — our CIA rendition folks have already done business with him.

But, don't expect the NYT to mention that. Its non-opaque loyalties are toward propping up people like Mubarak.