AQ doesn't need to do that, they already are affiliated with a political party in the US in the form of the Democrats. and they have their own media here too.
Al Jazeera International begins broadcasting in May. So they'll have another outlet along with the ones they already have.
True. What really irks me when I debate with my mother-in-law, a die hard feminist and lib, is that she and others don't seem to get the least bit upset at the prospect of us winding up living in a Taliban-like society (which is what will happen if our enemies have their way). The thinking seems to be "anything other than the Bush-bots, church-loving neocons is better". Baffling indeed.