Does the media feel good? Then congratulations are in order!

Congratulations to Egyptians, whose 82-year-old dictator, Hosni Mubarak, resigned on Friday.

Congratulations to their new dictator, 75-year-old Gen. Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Military Council.

Congratulations to Al Jazeera, the satellite news channel owned by the Arab dictator of Qatar. Al Jazeera didn't just cover the street protests in Egypt, they openly encouraged them. Al Jazeera was against Mubarak because he was an ally of the U.S. and kept peace with Israel.

Congratulations to the Muslim Brotherhood. As their name suggests, they're fundamentalists who want the world to live under Sharia law, with the Qur'an as the constitution. In 1981, they assassinated the last Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat. They didn't have to go to the trouble to get rid of Mubarak this time.

Congratulations to Mohamed ElBaradei, the United Nations bureaucrat who left Egypt 46 years ago for the more pleasant surroundings of New York and Vienna. No organization has been a more loyal protector of dictatorships than the UN. And no UN bureaucrat has done more than ElBaradei, who went to passionate lengths to stop the West from liberating Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and whose most recent achievement was delaying inspections of Iran's nuclear program. Congratulations to him, for managing to convince the world's free press he is the democratic heir apparent in a country he hasn't lived in since the 1960s.

Congratulations to U.S. President Barack Obama. Shortly after his election, he flew to Cairo to make his keynote speech to the Muslim world. In 6,000 rambling words, he barely mentioned freedom or democracy. But he did mention them. He told Egypt that "freedom" meant the freedom for women to wear a religious veil, and that "democracy" was up to each country to interpret "in its own way."

So he must have been pleased these past weeks to see most of the women in Egypt's protests were wearing the Muslim Brotherhood-approved veil. And as a sensitive multiculturalist, Obama surely approves of the newfangled idea of "military democracy." Perhaps the phrase sounds better in Arabic.

Congratulations to Iran, which has for years done its best to undermine Egypt, the largest and most powerful Muslim counterweight in the region. Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hasn't been a tyrant as long as Mubarak. But Ahmadinejad proved during Iran's own rigged elections that a successful dictator doesn't let democracy activists rally day after day in the streets — they are immediately thrown in prison, or just killed. No messy protests are allowed in the Islamic Republic of Iran — unless their hate is directed at Ahmadinejad's enemies.

But most of all, congratulations to the journalists of the mainstream media. As always, this revolution was about them — just ask them. More media attention was given to the fact that CNN's dreamy anchor, Anderson Cooper, was roughed up by protesters than was given to investigating the anti-women, anti-secular, anti-Semitic, anti-western ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, though they're the likely victors of any "election" that might be held in coming months.

Most of today's journalists are too young to have covered the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, so this was their moment. So they are weepy cheerleaders, not reporters. And they are only too happy to say "ditto" to whatever Al Jazeera tells them is happening.

The fact that some of Egypt's protesters use Internet sites like Facebook and Twitter is so flattering because journalists love those too. Of course, the Muslim Brotherhood also uses Twitter and blogs, just as Iran's Ayatollah Khomeinei used audio cassettes in 1979 to spread his Islamic revolution.

And let me congratulate myself for my exquisite hatred of Mubarak, a hatred that predates the current fad. I savour this moment of jubilation and vindication. And I will wait until tomorrow to contemplate my new emotion — a deep fear that, like the fall of Iran's shah in 1979, things are about to get far, far worse.