TMZ Got Spencer Pratt Completely WRONG

Added: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]He has no experience. That is the number one criticism >> [snorts] >> that you will hear from the mainstream media, from leftist commentators, from Hollywood celebrities, and from Los Angeles residents who make media appearances why not to vote for Spencer Pratt. Because he has no experience. The left is running interference saying, "Okay, we understand that. We don't want homeless, either," they say. "We don't We don't We don't like the wildfires, either. But the answer to those problems isn't Spencer Pratt. You know, Spencer Pratt identifies those problems. He's not the answer because, and this is key, because he has no experience. TMZ's Harvey Levin articulated this probably um in in the way that illustrates the strategy the best. Take a look at this.

[00:00:46]>> Today is election day in Los Angeles.

[00:00:49]And as a lifelong Angeleno, um second generation, actually, uh I feel utterly defeated.

[00:00:59]And I feel defeated because we have millions and millions and millions of people in this city.

[00:01:06]And our choice now is a mayor who many people believe has failed um in key areas. Certainly the fires, and although homelessness has gone down some, it is still such a huge problem in this city. And it's cost us so much taxpayer money to try and fix something where this city is out of control. Um and that's my experience.

[00:01:37]And then you've got a reality star um who has had absolutely no experience.

[00:01:43]Karen Bass said, >> [clears throat] >> "He's never had a job." Um and he talks a good game, for sure. Spencer Pratt talks a good game. And in terms of debates, um he wins.

[00:01:55]But in terms of running a city with 55,000 employees, 44 departments, a complicated city, I covered it as a local reporter here in LA for CBS and NBC for years. This is a complicated, difficult city to run. And when you say, "Well, I'm I'm against crime and I will stop it and I am going to clean up the homeless problem in LA."

[00:02:26]You can make all of these platitude statements and that doesn't mean you have a solution. That just means you feel the way everybody else feels. I don't like crime and we got to do something about homelessness. And then the question, what are you going to do?

[00:02:40]And I know Spencer Bright has a plan of shipping people out and the whole thing.

[00:02:43]But the bottom line is that these are our choices and we have a Democrat socialist and frankly, personally, I don't think that's going to solve LA's problems. So, I'm just kind of venting as a Los Angeleno right now. But you do have to choose because somebody's going to become mayor.

[00:03:02]But I remember the day when we had mayors like Tom Bradley, who, you know, had experience, understood how to run government and he wasn't perfect for sure. Um and as a TV reporter, I actually had issues with Bradley that we aired on television. But he was overall a good mayor and a good public servant.

[00:03:24]And there were reasons people voted for him. And now it just feels like such a difficult thing to decide, who am I for?

[00:03:36]And I know there are people who are saying that Spencer Bright is the answer and he's Batman and he's all of this.

[00:03:42]But no, he's not. You know, it's like just get real for a minute. He's not.

[00:03:48]And is he the better of the three?

[00:03:51]Maybe.

[00:03:52]Maybe. I don't know.

[00:03:54]Um I'm not going to say, but I'm just so depressed when I look at our choices, and not just for mayor, but for governor in this state.

[00:04:04]>> Okay. All right, let's pause this here for a second because Harvey Levin just articulated the strategy that Democrats um and the left, anybody who doesn't like Spencer Pratt is using.

[00:04:20]I agree that he has identified problems that have hurt you, is essentially what Harvey Levin said. The homeless problem, the wildfires. He feels what we feel because he's been hurt by it, but he doesn't have any experience, Harvey Levin said, and then he quoted Karen Bass saying that Spencer Pratt has never had a job. So, this and we'll get to the surprise in Spencer Pratt's background in just a moment. But, this is what I would highly suggest to you.

[00:04:53]What is experience?

[00:04:56]There is no inherent morality to experience. You could work for a sales team, for example, for 15 years.

[00:05:05]You could sell nothing during that 15 years, and you still have 15 years experience in sales, but what is the value of that experience? There is no intrinsic value in having experience. You could work 20 years in construction, and you could get rich during that 20 years stealing construction supplies, and you could say, "I have 20 years experience getting rich in construction."

[00:05:26]However, the experience in those two examples, neither of those two things, neither of those two experiences should recommend you for another job because experience has no inherent morality, no intrinsic value in and of itself. It is the substance of the experience that actually matters.

[00:05:47]The substance, the skill sets that you learned, or the processes that you applied, the problems that you fixed, what has actually been accomplished during your tenure or your experience.

[00:06:03]And I would suggest to Harvey Levin and to the voters of Los Angeles to ask the following question, what is Karen Bass's experience? Yes, she has experience as the mayor of Los Angeles.

[00:06:16]She has experience a very long career filled with experiences. She started at USAID, which we have described to you what her job was at USAID. She was a high-ranking official that specialized in color revolutions. She's a trained political warlord. She has lots of experience with that, but is that experience that you want in your mayor?

[00:06:39]I would contend not. Karen Bass also has experience traveling to communist Cuba as part of a communist brigade. Is that experience that you want that is valuable? The substance of that experience, will it help her succeed as mayor of Los Angeles? I would contend no. Karen Bass allowed wildfires in Los Angeles to happen because she didn't do brush clean-up and she didn't she didn't do any of the things that you need to do in order to stop the fires that exist in California from happening.

[00:07:09]She didn't clean up the homeless encampment. The Palisades wildfire was started by radical leftist who admired Luigi Mangione.

[00:07:17]Karen Bass allowed this to happen and when it did happen, she was dancing, vacationing in Ghana in Africa and didn't even come back.

[00:07:26]So, she has experience in office, but is that the kind of experience, is there value in her experience? She has experience addressing the homeless problem, too. Yes, the tent cities have gotten worse. She's offered to give free teeth to meth addicts. She's given corrupt NGOs a lot of your money while not fixing the homeless problem. She's handed out needles to these addicts.

[00:07:45]She's ignored parents who don't want homeless encampments outside of their children's schools.

[00:07:51]But her experience doesn't have value in and of itself. In fact, her experience shows her lack of value in her position.

[00:08:04]So, here's where it gets interesting.

[00:08:06]If you compare the substance of Karen Bass's experience to Spencer Pratt's experience, what is Spencer Pratt's experience?

[00:08:12]Well, most people say none. He just kind of has a good idea of what he might do.

[00:08:16]He has some connections. Or they might say a reality TV star, a villain on television. No, no.

[00:08:22]No, no.

[00:08:24]Spencer Pratt's experience is a track record of being majorly successful based on his own ingenuity and hustling, making multiple endeavors that, my guess, and I say when I when I say my guess, maybe you've never heard of these endeavors because I hadn't heard of many of these endeavors, making them wildly successful when he tried his hand at them.

[00:08:47]Now, Spencer Pratt graduated from USC with a degree in political science. So, politics is not totally foreign to this man.

[00:08:54]Um he Yes, he starred on a reality TV show, The Hills, but he also created and executive produced another reality TV um show called The Princes of Malibu on Fox, which shows you that he is a successful businessman. That's not just nepotism.

[00:09:11]You have to get ratings with your show, which means it has to be clever, it has to be good.

[00:09:15]Um you have to be able to pitch it and show why viewers are going to like it.

[00:09:20]So, if you create something that's your idea, you pitch it and it is accepted and then it is successful ratings-wise, that is a successful business that you have run. Spencer Pratt, that is Spencer Pratt's just a fraction of his experience. And yes, again, he was the villain on The Hills.

[00:09:37]But if you look at this for what it is, the villain in a TV show is actually the driver.

[00:09:44]The driver of the show.

[00:09:46]And it's oftentimes the villain that determines whether the show is successful or not. Spencer Pratt, the way he played the villain, sure people like hated him, but they loved to hate him.

[00:09:57]He drove the success of that TV show, which was one of the most successful reality shows ever. That's not a coincidence. That's not because reality TV show is actually These are staged scenes that are filmed.

[00:10:10]They are planned in advance.

[00:10:13]It's a strategy, a tactic to keep the get the viewers' attention, to grab that attention, and to keep it.

[00:10:19]If you are able to do that on a long-term basis and to catapult the show on which you do that to 6 years of enormous fame, then you are very skilled at what you do. That is business acumen.

[00:10:33]In addition to that, Spencer Pratt, after his reality TV days, he became a community advocate and a citizen journalist. He filled a void in Los Angeles, in the Pacific Palisades, after his home and his parents' home and his neighbors' homes all burned down. He documented the reality of what it was happening, what it was like, what had happened to him in the Pacific Palisades in the aftermath of the fires.

[00:10:58]This is when the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, was dancing in Ghana.

[00:11:04]This is a significant um service. There's there's a core part of entrepreneurship where you have to identify um a void, and then you have to you have to fill that void. You have to identify something that people want or something that they need, and then you have to solve that problem. That is an incredibly difficult thing to do, which is why m- even successful business uh businessmen talk about all of their failures because that's not easy to do, but being a citizen journalist at a time when politicians and mainstream media were gaslighting the entire country about what happened in the Pacific Palisades fire. I mean, it it was literally years ago that these houses burned down and we just found out last month that the person who started the fire, the arsonist, was a radical leftist who hated billionaires. He wanted to punish the rich and he admired Luigi Mangione. Imagine if we had not had citizen journalists on the ground.

[00:12:00]It would have been a fiery but mostly peaceful protest type of coverage from the mainstream media who didn't want to hold leftist politicians accountable.

[00:12:08]On top of serving that need, which is a form of entrepreneurship, he then took his wife, his wife whom by the way he's been married to for a long time. He married her after The Hills.

[00:12:18]She was on this reality TV show with him, Heidi Montag.

[00:12:21]Um she made a an album, music, 15 years ago.

[00:12:28]That's a long time ago. Usually albums from 15 years ago, unless they're like timeless, stand the test of all generations. After 15 years, no one really remembers them unless they're like the best of the best. It's it's usually dead and gone. It's content that was created a long time ago and you might find it, you know, for $1.99 somewhere in a in an old um in an old record shop, you know, on CD form. Spencer Pratt took his wife's 15-year-old music, the album by the way, if you want to look it up, it's called Superficial, and he brought it back to life. I'm talking last year and the year before. And he made this 15-year-old album an international hit.

[00:13:08]It reached number one on iTunes and number two on Billboard dance. It was charting in Europe and the UK.

[00:13:15]This is not something organically that happened based on Spencer Pratt's hummingbird videos. This is one of the most difficult things in Hollywood to do, in the entire music industry, even outside of Hollywood, globally, there are how many people who record albums, and yet how many of those albums, what tiny, tiny fraction of a percent are actually successful, let alone reach number one on iTunes and number two on Billboard dance?

[00:13:43]And it's typically not organic.

[00:13:46]It's typically something that's a highly constructed campaign to catapult that album to that success, and it's almost never an album that's 15 years old.

[00:13:57]This is Spencer Pratt's experience. He took things that weren't, and he created them.

[00:14:03]He took things that were broken, and he exposed them.

[00:14:07]He took things that were dead, and brought them back to life.

[00:14:11]All in areas where before he did the things, he didn't have so-called experience.

[00:14:18]Spencer Pratt, and I didn't know this about what Spencer Pratt had done, how the pivotal role that he played in the creation of these wildly successful television shows, his um citizen journalism, or the way that he made his wife's music successful.

[00:14:35]I didn't know this.

[00:14:38]But when you look at this, you see that Spencer Pratt has a track record of being successful in a big way at whatever he puts his mind to. Karen Bass claims that he never had a job.

[00:14:47]Well, has she ever had a job outside of government? Or was she just a political warlord at USAID before she was a mayor who went to dance in Ghana while her city burned down and meth addicts shot up outside of children's schools.

[00:14:59]Spencer Pratt has a track record of being successful in a big way at whatever he puts his mind to, and Karen Bass does not. This is the strategy.

[00:15:07]They tried to make him mega, and he rejected that.

[00:15:10]Now they're going to say, "But he doesn't have experience. So, even if he's identified these problems, is he the right person to solve them?"

[00:15:17]And the answer to that is yes, he is.

[00:15:19]He is because the experience in his background matters and the experience of Karen Bass also matters because it shows us that not only is she wildly incompetent, that when she had the chance she didn't fix it, it shows us that she's dishonest and corrupt and wants chaos, dirt, and crime, and a disgusting experience in LA because she's a communist.

[00:15:43]And in order for politicians to have control over you, they need you to be struggling to survive.

[00:15:50]They need LA to look like a third world country in order to run their politics like a third world country.

[00:15:58]So experience does matter and Spencer Pratt's experience better positions him for success as mayor of LA.