Michael Knowles

Why are they going after Pratt?

And I wonder if there's a pragmatic decision here, which is...

They don't think he's going to win, and so they're willing to kind of write him off and cast him to the side.

This is all psychobabble.

It's pure speculation.

But it is a strange zag.

After CBS had been positioning itself as being the network most fair and favorable to conservatives, why would they go out and really smack down the most exciting local candidate?

And Trump,

Trump himself is literally a reality TV star.

So the parallels are pretty close.

I thought Pratt's great response to this question of, you know, you don't have any experience in politics.

What makes you think you could be the mayor is it?

Well, it was actually Trump's response when he became the Republican nominee without ever having held public office, says, look at what experience got us.

Yeah.

OK, well, if experience in L.A.

is burning down the Palisades while you're on another continent and the fire is being caused by one of your own, one of your own ideological comrades, this left wing arsonist, allegedly, then if that's experience, I want the opposite.

Give me a novice, please.

I trust him a lot more with my home.

Well, look, maybe it's all a big misunderstanding, because if he...

initially claimed that his father had died.