Politics & Power Quote by Pat Boone

Pat Boone’s line lands like a folksy aside, but it’s doing hard political work. The “In fact - statistically, as you know” setup borrows the tone of a settled truth, the kind of common-sense authority that doesn’t need to show its receipts. “People have done polls, research” gestures toward science without committing to any specific study; the vagueness is the point. It’s less an argument than a permission structure for suspicion: you’re not paranoid, you’re informed.

The 80 percent claim isn’t just a number, it’s a lever. It turns “the media” from a messy ecosystem into a unified bloc with a partisan identity, collapsing professional norms, individual differences, and business incentives into a single motive: liberal Democrats shaping reality. Boone also slips in an important hedge: “if they are involved with any party,” then widens it to “certainly liberal in their philosophy.” Even if you can’t prove party registration, you can still indict temperament. That move keeps the accusation sticky even when facts get fuzzy.

Context matters: Boone came up in a mid-century entertainment world that often prized mainstream respectability, then watched the culture wars recast Hollywood and journalism as ideological battlegrounds. His intent reads less like data analysis and more like boundary-setting for his audience: if coverage feels hostile to your values, don’t interrogate the story, interrogate the storyteller. It’s a cultural coping mechanism disguised as statistics.