{"id":2604160,"date":"2026-05-18T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spencer-pratt-levels-reporter-who-mocked-him-for-not-living-in-the-home-la-dems-let-burn-down\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:05:58","slug":"spencer-pratt-levels-reporter-who-mocked-him-for-not-living-in-the-home-la-dems-let-burn-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spencer-pratt-levels-reporter-who-mocked-him-for-not-living-in-the-home-la-dems-let-burn-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt Levels Reporter Who Mocked Him for Not Living in the Home LA Dems Let Burn Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspencer-pratt-levels-reporter-who-mocked-him-for-not-living-in-the-home-la-dems-let-burn-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2604160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A piece argues that former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has become a nuisance to California\u2019s political establishment after the Pacific Palisades wildfire, which they claim was met with poor leadership from Democratic officials. It describes Pratt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-congresswoman-calls-el-paso-new-ellis-island\/\" title=\"Democratic Congresswoman Calls El Paso \u2018New Ellis Island\u2019\">months-long criticism<\/a> of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and others and frames a clash with Variety correspondent Marlow Stern, who allegedly mocked Pratt on X for saying he planned to leave if he lost a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-mayoral-candidate-maya-wiley-hosted-event-with-anti-semite-dropped-from-womens-march\/\" title=\"NY Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley Hosted Event With Anti-Semite Dropped From Women\u2019s March\">mayoral bid<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The article says Stern\u2019s \u201che lives in Santa Barbara\u201d jab misunderstands Pratt\u2019s situation, emphasizing that Pratt\u2019s own home burned down and he relocated temporarily because he \u201ccan\u2019t rebuild.\u201d It then presents Pratt\u2019s angry responses condemning what it portrays as cruel treatment of wildfire victims and uses the exchange to argue that many journalists prioritize pushing a political agenda over empathy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spencer Pratt has become an unlikely thorn in the side of California\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-biden-stumble-into-a-new-world-war\/\" title=\"Will Biden Stumble Into a New World War?\">ruling political class<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former reality TV personality has spent months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/la-mayoral-race-shows-just-far-left-dems-gone-spencer-pratt-now-fascist-wanting-clean-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasting the leadership<\/a> in Los Angeles after losing his home in the devastating Pacific Palisades fire due to the Democratic Party\u2019s ineptitude and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Early Monday morning, he found himself sparring with a media elitist who would love nothing more than to prop up those same politicians in perpetuity to keep L.A. looking exactly how it looks right now.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Variety chief correspondent Marlow Stern attempted to mock Pratt on X after Deadline published a story about Pratt\u2019s mayoral ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Deadline report was headlined: \u201cSpencer Pratt Plans To Leave L.A. If He Loses Mayoral Bid: \u2018I Will Be Done.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stern responded on X with a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >smug jab aimed directly<\/a> at Pratt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201che\u2026 lives in santa Barbara,\u201d Stern wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKka8XytL1\">https:\/\/t.co\/AKka8XytL1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarlowNYC\/status\/2056067389599440983?\">May 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, that was supposed to be some kind of devastating own. The problem is, Pratt is not living outside of Los Angeles because he wanted a change of scenery.<\/p>\n<p>His house burned down in the Palisades fire that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-mocked-for-tone-deaf-good-news-while-californians-flee-wildfires\/\" title=\"Biden ... for tone-deaf &#039;good news&#039; while Californians flee wildfires\">ravaged entire neighborhoods<\/a> while Democrat leaders did absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt has relentlessly criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the rest of the city\u2019s political establishment over the handling of the catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/marlow-stern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stern<\/a> still decided the appropriate stance was to sneer at a man whose family lost everything.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt fired back with a blistering response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy house burned down. I lost everything. I can\u2019t rebuild,\u201d Pratt wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I\u2019ve had to move into my parents\u2019 house, and I\u2019m getting attacked for that?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod help you if you try to make things right for your community \u2026 if you lose your entire town, \u2018journalists\u2019 mock you for not making your kids sleep in the toxic dirt on your burned out lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My house burned down. I lost everything. I can\u2019t rebuild. As a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I\u2019ve had to move into my parents\u2019 house, and I\u2019m getting attacked for that? This is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6SQG3yR8w\">https:\/\/t.co\/x6SQG3yR8w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencerpratt\/status\/2056244536494669830?\">May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho raised you, dude?\u201d Pratt concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Pratt deserved better than being mocked by a supposedly serious reporter working for a legacy entertainment publication.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever someone thinks about Pratt politically, ridiculing a wildfire victim for no longer living on a destroyed property is bottom-of-the-barrel behavior.<\/p>\n<p>How toxic are the rest of the people working at Variety or inside the countless other newsrooms scattered across America?<\/p>\n<p>That question is naturally rhetorical.<\/p>\n<p>That mindset \u2014 the one that led a man to mock another man for losing his home \u2014 exists in newsrooms nationwide, including probably one in a city near you.<\/p>\n<p>People who lecture endlessly about empathy and tolerance are suddenly out of compassion when someone challenges the left-wing machine.<\/p>\n<p>Stern\u2019s smug little X post is a perfect snapshot of what millions of normal Americans are up against every day.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a decent, taxpaying citizen who wants competent government, safe streets, functioning infrastructure, and freedom from the left\u2019s nonstop cultural revolution, much of the corporate press already sees you as the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Not every one of these activists masquerading as journalists is violent. 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