You are experiencing the same issue I see on these threads, countless times per news item. Namely people read something, or hear something and repeat it as fact, when it is only an opinion. When asked to justify it they can't, because the proof doesn't exist. The ironic thing, at least as far as the UK is concerned, is the left-wing call the public "sheep" for believing what they read in the press, yet don't seem to notice the same traits in themselves.