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London’s Daily Mail reported ABC News bungled in its pro-Biden bias over the weekend, claiming they were celebrating Biden’s apparent victory with fireworks:

“Fireworks lit up the night sky over London, England, after Joe Biden was characterized to be the apparent winner of the presidential election,” the supposedly worldly network wrote on social media in a since-deleted Tweet.

ABC wasn’t alone. On Saturday night, CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny was enchanted as well: “We heard church bells in Paris, fireworks in London. This is indeed a moment the world is watching!”

As the Daily Mail reported on ABC:

Brits were quick to correct the broadcaster on their mistake, and pointed out that the fireworks were part of the annual Bonfire Night celebrations.

One social media user reacted with glee, saying: ‘Shall we tell them? I wanna tell them!’ while another branded the TV network ‘morons’.

The glee came from Daniel Hannan, a former Conservative member of Parliament:

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https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/11/09/morons-brits-laugh-abc-cnn-msnbc-thinking-uk-fireworks-were-biden