In a one-hour promo that Al Jazeera America aired before it debuted its programming on Tuesday, the network featured words of endorsement from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a promotional montage of images and clips, Al Jazeera America played a clip of Hillary Clinton saying that Al Jazeera is “real effective,” and “viewership is going up because it’s real news.”
A clip of McCain aired in which he says, “what Al Jazeera has done is to achieve what I think all of us want to achieve–and that is to make a contribution.”
McCain recently suggested that he may consider voting for Clinton, despite her role in the Benghazi terror attack scandal, if she won her party’s nomination and ended up facing Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in the 2016 presidential contest.
Multiple images of President Barack Obama showed up in the montage, as did an image of Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The network claimed that its “journalism integrity knows no borders” and then previewed and profiled its shows, anchors, and personalities.
Immediately after the “This is Al Jazeera” promo, anchor Tony Harris, formely of CNN, introduced the network and anchored the hour-long newscast at 4 PM EDT.