THE BOATRIGHT REPORT- An Open Back Road Guide to The American Experience
By; Charles W. Boatright
The Democrats Complicit Role in American History– Understanding June 19th and Democrats Role in Institutionalizing Slavery, Jim Crow & Segregation
The term COMPLICIT is a word meaning to help to commit a crime or choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others as an injustice to others.
WHAT I find Paradoxical and ironic is this– The same Democrats who are supporters of Juneteenth and Brandon Presley, a Democrat nominee for Governor of Mississippi in November of 2023. This same Democratic Party institutionalized SLAVERY between the mid 1700’s to the mid- 1860’s. And institutionalized SEGREGATION, and JIM CROW LAWS between the mid 1870’s to the late 1960’s. Segregation and suppression are still supported by Democrats TODAY.
We observe June 19th, as a day that Union Soldiers under the command of Major General Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that a quarter-of-a-million slaves were free in Texas. Texas was one of eleven Democratic controlled states that seceded from the Union over the issue of Slavery and after Fort Sumter was attacked by Southerners.
June 19th, 1865 was 71- days after the Civil War had ended on April 09th, 1865 and 829- days after Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 01, 1863. Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the United States and its territories. These eleven states that seceded from the Union were controlled by Democratic Party that held power from the early 1700’s up until the late 1960’s when Republicans won national and states races.
The Start of The Civil War
In addition to the Emancipation Proclamation, Republican Abraham Lincoln issued an Executive Order that all United States military installations (forts and ports) were to remain in control of the Union. This started a cascading effect of eleven Southern States seceded from the Union.
The eleven states the withdrew from the Union by order and date:
1. South Carolina (20Dec1860)
2. Mississippi (09Jan1861)
3. Florida (10Jan1861)
4. Alabama (11Jan1861)
5. Georgia (19Jan1861)
6. Louisiana (01Feb1861)
7. Texas (11Jan1861)
April 12th, 1861 Fort Sumter was attacked by the South
8. Virginia (17Apr1861)
9. Arkansas (06May1861)
10. North Carolina (20May1861)
11. Tennessee (08Jun1861)
These 11 states were controlled by the Democratic Party. What is surprising is that after the Civil War had ended on April 09th, 1865, the Democrats simply replaced slavery with segregation and Jim Crow Laws. The blood, sweat, and tears poured out during the Civil Rights to fight against secession and slavery the Democrats just instituted segregation policies and avoided equal application or enforcement of the law.
The Poster Boys for Segregation was Democratic Governor George Wallace (AL), Oval Faubus (AR), and Ross Barnett (MS)
The 11 states that seceded from the Union in 1860 and 1861 were controlled by Democrats up until the early 1970’s when these southern states started turning from BLUE to RED. Most of these 11 seceded states had Democratic Governors, legislators and local law enforcement. Here in Mississippi from 1817 up to the present for example there were 45- Democratic Governors and only 6- Republican. For Arkansas 44- Democratic Governors and 11- Republican.
Democratic nominee Brandon Presley is running for Governor of Mississippi in the 2024 election. He represents a party that has been complicit with the media to undermine the U.S. Constitution with weaponization of both the law enforcement and Justice Department using propaganda.
Only in recent elections have Republicans held the office in these southern states in various offices. I had a front row seat in both Arkansas and now in Mississippi to the Democrats’ complicit role that they played in dismantling the U.S. Constitution that generations has fought to defend and protect.
Brief History of the Democrats’ Complicit Part in Segregation
Blow I will lay out a brief history of the Democratic Party role in Slavery and later Segregation that is still their Objective:
Case No. 1 Southerners ties to Britain before the War of Independence–
Southerners (Democrats) in the Colonies of Georgia and Carolina’s (North and South) economies were largely agricultural based that relied on exports to Britain of corn, cotton, tobacco, etc. that was very lucrative in revenue to these colonies. These were also the Slave trade that made these crops possible to grow, harvest, and to be exported. Why would they want to mess up a great economy for independence from England?
There was no reason for the southern colonies to declare independence from Britain just because of Britain’s taxation under King George with limited liberty for self determination. Some of the southerners even took up arms against the colonists and Washington’s Army fighting the Brits for independence since the Declaration of Independence that we celebrate on July 4th.
During the Civil War on July 4th, 1863, Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton of the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant after the Union Army/Navy laid siege from May 18th, to July 4th, 1863. Until World War II, the majority of Vicksburg citizens didn’t celebrate July the 4th. What was interesting about July of 1863 was when the Union Army won a decisive battle at Gettysburg on July 03rd, 1863.
Case No. 2 Ratifying The Constitution of The United States
During the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the southerners insisted on what was called the Numberization Clause to the U.S. Constitution before they were ratified and agreed to sign it. This Numberization Clause would allow for the agricultural southern states to keep slavery trade in place as a workforce. Not even to transition to indentured servants that the southern colonies could agree upon where the workforce could work off their debt for their freedom over a number of years.
It would be another 73- years after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in September of 1787 before the slave issue would be addressed and settled with a bloody Civil War. The Civil War took place during the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (the first Republican to be President from 04Mar1861 until his assassination on 15Apr1865 killed by a Southern loyalist, John Wilkes Booth, at Ford’s Theater).
President Abraham Lincoln signed an Executive Order called the Emancipation Proclamation on 01Jan1863 during the third year during a bloody Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln signed freed all slaves in the United States and territories. This sealed his fate in his assassination at Ford’s Theater at the hands of Booth.
Case No. 3 Secession from the Union
The southern states that formed the Confederacy were controlled by the BLUE Democratic Party that wanted to retain slavery that was important to their agriculture based economy. On 17Dec1860 the first group of states seceded, (1) South Carolina, followed by (2) Mississippi, (3) Florida, (4) Alabama, (5) Georgia, (6) Louisiana, and (7) Texas. After Lincoln called up 75,000 militia to stop the rebellion and protect Ft. Sumter, this was followed by (8) Virginia, (9) Arkansas, (10) North Carolina, and (11) Tennessee seceding in January of 1861. 11- States seceded from the Union in all. President Lincoln stated that all military posts remained the property of the United States, the Union.
Case No. 4- The Confederates attack at Fort Sumter
After Lincoln called up militia to resupply and protect fort Sumter on 12Apr1861, the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter that started the Civil War.
Case No. 5- President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln on 15Apr1865 at Ford’s Theater. This was at the end of a very hard fought war that ended on 09Apr1865 where General Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Case No. 6- Reconstruction and Promise of a Perfect Union Dashed
For seven years after the Civil War, a period known as Reconstruction started and was assisted by the Freedmen’s Bureau that gave former slaves food, housing, and education. This Reconstruction led to the first African-Americans to serve in Congress. Reconstruction and Freedmen offer a great amount of promise, hope, and opportunity to African-Americans to be part of their Country with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This was short lived due to the Southern Democrats Black Codes, like Jim Crow that lead up to the Colfax Massacre, this was mass killings of African-Americans that took place in 1873 in New Orleans and Memphis by the strong arm of the Democratic Party A.K.A. Ku Klux Klan. The Democrat’s KKK existed and had a firm hold in the south up until the mid 1970’s.
Years following the Civil War up to 100 African-Americans were being tortured and lynched every year in the south. If it wasn’t for a very courageous African-American reporter, Ida B. Wells, helped to expose the horrors and the atrocities that took place in the Democratic controlled South. She reported on 250 lynchings in her book. We still have some independent courageous reporters now that aren’t tied to the Democratic Party.
Reconstruction was probably the best opportunity to be the nation that all citizens had a right to participate in their Country as equal citizens. Lincoln’s Reconstruction was proven when Eleanor Roosevelt insisted on giving African-Americans the opportunity to become aviators with the establishment of the Tuskegee Training Facility.
Another point that Reconstruction would have worked a century earlier was the desegregation of sports, especially in the SEC in the late 1960’s.
If the Democratic Segregation hadn’t ended, we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to witness the performance of Jesse Owens, Earl Campbell, Herschel Walker, or Bo Jackson just to name a few African-Americans athletes performance. Sports have been enriched with the participation of African-Americans in all sports, not to mention MLB.
An interesting story about Herschel Walker in the SEC special that aired on the SEC Network. Herschel Walker described how an older man came up to him after a Georgia Football game and introduced himself as a former Democrat KKK member, and how Herschel Walker changed his whole premise on Segregation and African-Americans.
Case No. 7 Reconstruction Providing Opportunity to African Americans for those like to Jeremiah Haralson from Selma, Alabama
During Reconstruction there was a significant number of African Americans that held political office that were Republican. Jeremiah Haralson was among the first African American to serve as a Republican in the Alabama State Representative and Senator from Dallas Country, Alabama. Jeremiah Haralson was a self-taught (autodidact) similar to that of President Abraham Lincoln.
Some in the Union States wanted to impose restrictions where no Democrat politician could run for governmental office. Some in the Union States were concerned that Southerners would prevent African American from their basic rights as free men and women in the South from having a voice and exercising their rights. For 12- years President Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction proposal gave African Americans the ability to integrate into society and realize their full potential, it was impressive history of what African Americans accomplished soon after Southern Slavery had ended.
If Reconstruction proved one thing it was that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. The only reason that Reconstruction worked so well for 12- years following the Civil War was the occupation of Union Forces that remain in the south enforcing Reconstruction. After Union occupation withdrew at the request of Southerns, there was the rise of KKK and institution of Jim Crow Laws. What was so promising for African Americans was dashed by Democrats, little has changed since then.
Case No. 8- Indianola, Mississippi Postmaster, Minnie Cox
The predominant Democratic South story in Indianola, Mississippi where residence took exception with their Postmaster being an African-American woman. Minnie Cox was a very successful business woman and Postmaster. They protested and requested Minnie Cox be removed as Indianola Postmaster. In response, Republican President Theodor Roosevelt in retribution for the town’s racial protest, ordered that the Indianola Post Office be Closed and moved the Post Office to Greenville, Mississippi.
President Theodor Roosevelt kept paying Minnie Cox salary.
Case No. 9 Booker T. Washington Visit to the White House
16Oct1901, President Theodor Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington from the Tuskegee Institute to the White House to have dinner with him. At the time, Booker T. Washington taught at Tuskegee Institute that later would be the training facility for the first African-American Pilots for World War II. Booker T. Washington had to be smuggled out of Alabama because of the media press bias toward African-Americans. Little has changed with our media even today, they still carry the water for their Democrats Masters.
The Democrats and their press media have the same approach to opposing views as they had back over 200 years ago.
Case No. 10 Money, Mississippi
28Aug1955, Emmet Till was lynched my the Democratic KKK for supposedly whistling at Carolyn Bryant owners wife at Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market in a small town north of Greenwood, MS on U.S. Hwy 61. I visited Money, Mississippi several times and visited other civil rights sites where the Democrat strong arm KKK committed hate crimes.
I traveled over Mississippi working as a Grid Engineer for a Transmission Line Utility located in Jackson, Mississippi. I also witnessed the Democrats’ bias living in Arkansas and how the tide has changed over the last 53- years. A lot more needs to be done, however. We certainly don’t need to return to the days of the Democrat segregation Era.
Case No. 11 The Assassination of Medgar Wiley Evers
On June 12th, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, Jr. a Democrat member of the KKK from Greenwood, Mississippi used a 1917 Enfield Rifle to assassinate Medgar Wiley Evers at his home in Jackson, Mississippi after a rally. Medgar Evers was the first Mississippi field Secretary for the NAACP that helped advance Civil Rights in the south like in the case of James Meredith being enrolled at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Medgar Evers in 1955 also assisted in the investigation of Emmet Till’s lynching where Emmet Till was abducted in Money, Mississippi. Money, Mississippi is a small town just north of Greenwood, Mississippi on U.S. Highway 61.
The Democrat Party’s used their strong arm thugs tactics of their KKK squads that operated with impunity in the south suppressing any and all efforts to integrate the Democrat controlled South. One major cases was during the 1963 NCAA Basketball Tournament described below:
Case No. 12 Mississippi State University’s 1963 Basketball Team NCAA Tournament
In March of 1963, just four (4) months before the Assassination of Medgar Wiley Evers, The Mississippi State University’s (MSU) basketball team had to seek out of the state to play Loyola’s Basketball team that was integrated in the NCAA Finals. It took a tremendous amount of courage for the President of MSU, Dean Colvard, and Head Basketball Coach Babe McCarthy to defy the Mississippi Democrat Governor’s, Ross Barnett, orders, one of three high profile Democrat Governors in the south. The MSU team secretly traveled to Lansing, Michigan to play in the game where MSU lost the game, but won by breaking decades of old racial barriers of Jim Crow Laws.
The other two poster boys for Jim Crow were Alabama Governor George Wallace, Arkansas Governor Oval Faubus both Democrats.
Even though the MSU team lost the basketball game, they won in helping break the color barrier and changing the Democratic stronghold landscape in the South operating under Democrats Jim Crow Laws. The MSU Basketball team returned home to a hero’s welcome.
One of sports’ greatest, iconic images was caught at the start of the game with the opening handshake between MSU’s Stan Brinker and Loyola’s Vic Rouse. This history was caught in a black and white photograph. The title of the photograph was called Game of Change.
What was interesting about this game was the friendship that formed between Stan Brinker and Vic Rouse that never ended. The friendship that these two had was demonstrated in the expression of emotions Vic Rouse had when he was informed about Stan Brinker passing.
The Democratic Party, our press and media constantly use the term ‘White Supremacist’ to define a person by their race instead of their character, or the lack thereof. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in I have a Dream speech stated- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Case No. 13 Philadelphia, Mississippi Civil Rights Workers
21Jun1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwemer were found dead (shot) and their bodies burned in Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was discovered that the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Office and Philadelphia Police Department were directly involved in the murders that implicated 18 other people. One was Edgar Ray Killen, the mastermind with the White Knights of the KKK. All of these persons had direct ties to the Democratic Party. Murders of this magnitude don’t take place without knowledge of the political leadership of that day.
Edgar Ray Killen was tried again in 12Jan2005 for masterminding the murders of the Civil Rights Workers. Transcripts from the original case were read in court before a jury that found Edgar Ray Killen guilty of the murders of the three Civil Rights workers. Edgar Ray Killen died in prison.
Case No. 14 The Little Rock Nine
On 04Sep1957, Arkansas Democratic Governor Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guard Troops to stop nine African-Americans students from attending Little Rock Central High School after the Supreme Court issued a Ruling stating that Segregation was unconstitutional based on the 14th Amendment.
To enforce the desegregation Ruling, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower President ordered 1,200 Troops from the 101st Airborne to protect and enforce the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. I attended North Little Rock (Ole Main) High School two decades after this incident.
Case No. 15 James Howard Meredith Admission to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
30Sep1962, Mississippi Democratic Governor Ross Barnett tried to block the admission of James H. Meredith from enrolling at The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). I had the pleasure of meeting James H. Meredith. James Meredith was sent a telegram denying his admittance from Ole Miss. From 1960-1961, James Meredith attended the historical Black College of Jackson State (now Jackson State University, JSU).
James Meredith with legal assistance from the NAACP filed a lawsuit that ended up at the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on 10Sep1962 that Meredith was to be admitted to Ole Miss. Riots broke out on campus, but the U.S. Marshals stationed on campus protected James Meredith. James Meredith described himself as the most segregated student in America while attending Ole Miss.
Case No. 16 The Desegregation of the University of Alabama
On 11Jun1963, Alabama Democratic Governor George Wallace personally stood in the doorway preventing two African American Students from attending the Summer Session at the University of Alabama. Acting on an order from the Federal Court, Democratic President John F. Kennedy ordered the U.S. Marshals to escort Vivien Malone and James Hood into the University of Alabama to be enrolled. This Court Order allowed Vivien Malone and James Hood to be admitted.
Governors Oval Faubus, Ross Barnett, and George Wallace were the face of the Democratic Segregated South.
Case No. 17 LBJ’s War on Poverty & the Great Society
If the programs that was associated with The War on Poverty and The Great Society were administered correctly these programs would have been a great benefit to the minority in our country. But these programs actually made conditions worse in that it broke down the minority families by taking fathers out of the home. It was referred to as Aid to Dependent Children.
Now the broken home syndrome where there is no male influence especially for young men at home still has a large impact. There is a severe disadvantage where there are no fathers in the home leads to crime due to the lack of guidance. There is no doubt of the heroic efforts single parent homes can provide for children; but it is putting all responsibility on one adult.
Case No. 18– False Allegations is a form of discrimination especially from the floor of Congress:
Harry Reed and Adam Schiff Smear Campaigns
Harry Reed on the floor of the Senate made an unfounded allegation that Mitt Romney did not pay his taxes that hurt Mitt’s Presidential Campaign. When questioned about the unfounded allegation, Harry Reed replied- Well It worked didn’t it. I have no respect for a party that allows their members like Harry Reed and Adam Schiff to state unfounded allegations that are totally FALSE! If they would have stated these allegations under oath in front of a congressional hearing, both would have perjured themselves. Not one Democratic Senator or Representative asked for evidence to support Harry Reed and Adam Schiff’s claims.
In the case of Adam Schiff on the floor of the House, he read a totally fabricated transcript about a telephone conversation between Republican Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Adam Schiff stated that it was evidence of quid pro quo that was also FALSE. Later President Trump furnished the actual transcript of the conversation that was totally contrary to the fabricated transcript Adam Schiff read. Again not one Democrat said a word.
We need to hold these Democratic Senators and Representatives responsible and vote them out of office for violating our confidence in them. What we say does matter.
Case No. 19 IRS Louis Lerner
IRS administrator Louis Learner under the direction from the Obama Administration denied 501(c) to Conservative groups that limited those groups Free Speech that other Democratic groups enjoyed, violating the fair application and enforcement of the law. Groups like Tea Parties were being denied their applications and Free Speech that is the basic principle of a free society.
Case No. 20 The Leadership at the FBI
The FBI was used by Democrats to intimidate parents at school board meetings classifying them as domestic terrorists. The FBI was trying to prevent parents from challenging the curriculum that they disagreed with by the action of an elected board. The parents felt that the Democratic woke leaning curriculum didn’t educate their children with basic skills that they need and their taxes support.
FBI agents were also used to infiltrate the campaign of conservative candidates to disrupt and intimidate workers and to accuse them of conspiring with foreign governments. This proves what others accuse you of doing are actually guilty themselves of doing.
Case No. 21- Sanctuary Cities and States
Starting in 2019 Democratic lead cities and states declare themselves to be sanctuaries where they would not enforce immigration laws and not prosecute various crimes, and also instituted no bail requirements. Unfair application of the law.
These cities have for all intensive purposes turned into third world countries without law or order. The illegal immigrants coming to these Democratic States and Cities can identify with these type conditions, because it is the very reason that they left their countries due to corruption.
Democrats pushed for de-funding the police that has caused the number of police officers to dwindle where crime is rampant in these cities like in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Baltimore.
In some cases during the 2020 Summer riots in Democratic Governors and Mayors instructed their police force to stand down while their cities were burning and their citizens were victimized.
Case No. 22 January 6th Response to a Corrupt Government
These conditions was what prompted the protest on 06Jan2021 where over 300,000 concerned Americans were voicing their opposition to how the Democrats, Intelligence personnel, and the FBI influenced a Presidential Election. The FBI withheld key information and evidence like the Hunter Biden Laptop where 51 Intelligence personnel labeled it as Russian Disinformation.
With regret some people turned this protest into a riot by breaching the capitol with the encouragement of the FBI. But there were inadequate safeguards and security put in place by Capitol Police and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, that there is new evidence to support. We can never condone is violence or intimidation of any form from anyone group. A military veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot by Capitol Police, Lieutenant Michael Byrd.
People that used the FBI to influence an election should be pursued through the legal system and those in government should be impeached or fired if found guilty and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We need to use elections to remove this type of Democratic policy.
During the French Revolution the general population didn’t have a voice in their government with free and fair elections. This led to guillotines being erected and used to purge governmental leaders that abused their office for their own gain.
Instead of guillotines let’s use the ballot box and clear out the corrupt Democrats, DOJ and the FBI.
Case No. 23 Foreign Influence in the Office of the Democrat President
From 2020 to 2022, Democrat subcommittees and committees turned a blind eye to the influence paddling with foreign entities being done by the Biden Family. Instead they focused on their opponents, the Republicans, and didn’t even show any interest in Biden when Vice-President and now as President where the evidence is just now being uncovered. But if you look at the history just laid out on the Democratic Party, this is a part of their nature.
Even during Watergate both Republicans and Democrats formed committees that were headed by (D) Sam Ervin and (R) James Baker to investigate the cover up. This is not what Democrats do now, instead they cover their own.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Case No. 24 Russia Collusion Hoax by the Democrats and those in the Media
What we have feared since 2016 was substantiated by the Durham Report that was issued in May of 2023. Durham found that there was no ligament reason why the Democrats with the support of the FBI and DOJ to claim or to launch a 3- year investigation lead by Democrat Adam Schiff with no evidence. This and the Hunter’s Laptop that 51 former Democratic Intelligence officers claim that was Russia miss information that they know to be false.
This heavily influenced the 2020 Presidential elections.
Case No. 25 The Unholy Alliance between Democrats and the Media
There has been a unholy alliance form between the Democratic Party and our mainstream media that includes the major networks where the two are part of the same organization. The mainstream media suppresses stories that are detrimental to the Democrat Party, but fabricate false information as news about those that challenge the Democrats and their demented platform. The Democrat platform objective is the same as it was in the early 1700’s, segregating Americans. Segregation has been a part of Democrats objective since the United States became a nation.
Case No. 26 Fake News Driven by the Mainstream Media
Along with Russia Collusion hyped and Hunter’s Laptop suppression by the media, an excellent example of media propaganda was the reason for high fuel prices being blamed on Russian invasion of Ukraine by the media. That was even being propagated at the local media level, even here in Jackson, Mississippi, where WLBT-3 Maggie Wade reported that high fuel prices were due to Russia invasion of Ukraine, that was totally false and inaccurate journalism that is just echo chamber for their Democratic Party.
The mainstream media has proven there isn’t a dime worth of difference between them, the mainstream media, and their Democratic Party that they support.
I chart fuel prices for decades, because I work in the energy industry for the past 36- years. Fuel prices have been on the rise due to Biden’s energy policies where he cut domestic energy production and suspended the Key Stone Pipeline project. Biden did these during his first month in office in February of 2021. The fuel prices are up due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia didn’t invade Ukraine until the following year, in late February of 2022. I sent the following chart to WLBT-3 and Maggie Wade.
There has been a tremendous amount of blood, sweat, and tears poured out for our freedoms of a free press and freedom to have a voice to be suppressed by those that claim to be journalists. Journalists of the mainstream media disguise themselves as a free press; but in actuality are not any different than the Nazi Propaganda machine under Joseph Goebbels. The Greatest Generation fought and died defeating this type of threat on our freedoms.
I personally DO NOT tune in to get my NEWS from ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, or PRN for the reasons that I have laid out here. The only reason I tune in to local networks is for weather and sports. You can’t fake these or put on your spin without being proven totally WRONG.
Here is what you do when you hear a news report to be fake on a network that you think is wrong. Search historical references and other leads that you trust than on a social media post your objections to the network and the journalist. Prove them wrong and demand a retraction. Those companies that support these news outlets, just send them the same objection and say that you ask them to not support these news outlets.