{"id":598907,"date":"2026-05-09T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=598907"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:39:53","slug":"la-mayor-hopeful-spencer-pratt-cbs-got-the-call-after-fact-checking-karen-bass-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=598907","title":{"rendered":"LA mayor hopeful Spencer Pratt: \u2018CBS got the call after fact-checking Karen Bass\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt is accusing CBS of shady behavior after its fact-checking of Mayor Karen Bass.<\/p>\n

CBS News shocked Republicans by actually engaging in journalism to fact-check Bass over her Palisades fire claims during a debate with Pratt. Bass alleged that the winds \u201creached close to 100 miles an hour and the planes were unable to fly,\u201d while Pratt argued that they \u201cnever reached higher than 40 mph.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt kicked off the city\u2019s mayoral debate in a heated exchange on Wednesday after Pratt called Bass \u201can incredible liar,\u201d and claimed she misguided Angelenos about the facts of the Palisades Fire when it broke out last\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/shPJZKC28C<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) May 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But it turns out that despite Bass\u2019s confidence, Pratt was correct.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeather modeling reviewed for my reporting shows winds in the Palisades during those first several hours of the fire were, in fact under 40 miles per hour. Planes could and did fly. Stronger winds intensified later in the evening. And that distinction matters because the earliest hours of a wildfire are often the most critical for containment,\u201d said Jonathan Vigliotti, who \u201chas been closely reporting on and investigating the blaze for over a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this could be seen as a rare win for the media, it didn\u2019t take long for the candidate to come out and accuse them of receiving \u201cthe call\u201d and turning his interview into a hit piece.<\/p>\n

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CBS got the call after fact-checking Karen Bass, so they tried to turn a 1 hour interview with me into a 5 minute hit piece. They need to air the full, unedited interview. pic.twitter.com\/ff6UsWZLuA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAfter CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades fire, they clearly got the call. CBS filmed with me on my burnt-out lot for over an hour, talking about crime, housing, affordability, things that voters care about, and they turned it over to Karen Bass\u2019s PR team to edit it into a comical five-minute hit piece,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThey can\u2019t beat my ideas, they can\u2019t beat me in the debates, so they have to turn my campaign into a sideshow. People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and I\u2019m done with CBS. They should release the full, unedited interview. The voters deserve to hear from their next mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Social media users reacted to Pratt\u2019s claims:<\/p>\n

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@CBS<\/a> is intentionally committing election interference AGAIN by doing shady influence campaigns @CISAgov<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sarah Adams (@sarahadams) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s crazy how you have to not only compete with your opponents but also their corrupt media machine.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Marc Alan Chronister, MA (@LogicProper) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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@CBS<\/a> Where is the full 1 hour interview?? Why not show what the candidate actually said? Did it make too much sense?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Amy (@_SFTahoe) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Always record interviews as well. Only protection you have!<\/p>\n

\u2014 KAG3-CO (@Kag3C) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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They\u2019re infamously known for editing interviews aren\u2019t you @CBS<\/a> \"\ud83d\ude44\"
\nDon\u2019t waste your time with them.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rebeka Martinez (@BekaMartinez) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt is accusing CBS of shady behavior after its fact-checking of Mayor Karen Bass. CBS News shocked Republicans by actually engaging in journalism to fact-check Bass over her Palisades fire claims during a debate with Pratt. Bass alleged that the winds \u201creached close to 100 miles an hour and the… Continue reading LA mayor hopeful Spencer Pratt: \u2018CBS got the call after fact-checking Karen Bass\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/598884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}