Outsider:  Actually, I understand your position.  I'm quite familiar with the concept of "cognitive dissonance"..the discomfort of have two conflicting bits of information in your mind".  When presented with CD., we seek to resolve the dissonance.  IMO, as you read  information (regardless of how documented) which conflicts with your ideas, you must either change your ideas or dismiss the information.  You choose to NOT change your views or ideas and, instead, to dismiss the information conflicting with those views.  Therefore the source of that information must be denigrated:  the "leftist media"...the purveyor of distortions and "fake news," the "leftist slant" and the dozens of other epithets your hurl at the media.  

You state:  " I wish for the welfare of all people, perhaps more than you."  Breaking news, sir, It's possible for two individuals to have very different views on issues and both be decent people; concerned with the welfare of others. please spare me the insults GCrum