Poor Dave Marash.

The onetime New York local TV news personality and “Nightline” correspondent has called it quits as lead anchor of al-Jazeera’s English network, citing – get this – the station’s anti-American bias.

Gee, ya think?

OK, so the Qatar-based network’s English channel – which, thankfully, can only be seen in this country on cable in Burlington, Vt., and Sandusky, Ohio – doesn’t go in for the ritual beheading videos and jihadist tirades favored by its main Arabic outlet.

Think of it as trying to put a moderate face on Terrorist TV.

For all its big-name English-speaking hires, like Marash and David Frost, al-Jazeera is the network of choice for outfits like al Qaeda. It’s the channel that eagerly airs their threats, their messages – and, in intimate detail, its brutal murders of Americans.

So a little America-bashing – or, as Marash put it, its “reflexive adversarial editorial stance” (hey, he’s a Williams College grad) – should be no biggie.

Actually, said Marash, anti-US bias on Al-Jazeera isn’t surprising, at all – “given the global feelings about the Bush administration.”

So, ultimately, you know who’s really at fault here.

Given that attitude, expect to see Marash back on US network news soon.