“stands to reason that people overall are prone to selective perception of information favorable to their own outlooks.”
I don’t know how many conservatives you hang with but in my world only liberals think like that. This site doesn’t work like DU.
It’s a cognitive bias that’s been well-substantiated by many studies over the decades, nobody has special immunity from it though it can be mitigated. I see both political persuasions being susceptible to it, liberals somewhat more so IMO.