Democracy is all well and good, until the outcome of a popular vote is unpopular with the liberal media.
The people of the United Kingdom voted on June 23, to leave the European Union. The broadcast news programs tried their own veto, focusing heavily on voter “Bregret” and anger in the three nights following the vote. 
Between June 24 and 26, 88 percent (7 out of 8 programs) on the broadcast evening news shows touted UK voter “second thoughts,” and repeatedly brought up a manipulated petition for another referendum.
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir led its Brexit coverage on June 24, with Muir saying “some British voters may be having second thoughts.”
The following night, London-based ABC correspondent Lama Hasan even tried to coax remorse out a pro-Brexit voter asking him, “do you regret the fact that you voted to leave the European Union?”
NBC Nightly News and CBS Weekend News coverage repeated the theme. CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley on June 24, was the only broadcast during that time that did not hype buyer’s remorse.
CBS News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti admitted “most of the 17 million people who voted to leave are thrilled,” before saying some of those who “wanted out of the E.U.” were now experiencing “Bregret.”
Nightly News featured a woman who told reporters she and her family regretted voting to leave the EU.
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ABC and NBC took the Brexit regret coverage even further by promoting a petition that called for a second referendum. Many of the petition’s signers, however, were bogus.
The petition, posted on the UK Parliament’s website, was overrun by hackers who set up “scripts and bots to add fake names to the petition at an impossible rate,” HeatStreet reported June 26. The fake signatures were set up to look like they came from Ghana, Vatican City, and North Korea, and were declared fraudulent by the UK’s Petitions Committee.
HeatStreet published its story on the morning of June 26, plenty of time for ABC and NBC to do their homework and see that petition was “signed” by bots and admit it that night. Yet, the petition continued to get network coverage.
Methodology: MRC Business watched NBC Nightly News (June 24-26), ABC World News with David Muir and the Saturday and Sunday versions of World News (June 24-26) , and CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley (June 24) and CBS Weekend News (June 25). MRC Business found no CBS News broadcast for the night of June 26.
