Another Hollywood star breaks cover to back Spencer Pratt for LA mayor ⁠78%

By Ross O'Keefe⁠0%

5/27/2026, 1:53:15 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Primacy Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 22.6% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 786 faulty-reasoning hits from 447 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠78% (4,807 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.00% of the article peer group.

Another Hollywood star breaks cover to back Spencer Pratt for LA mayor 
This award-winning actor has come out in support of Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor — in another sign Hollywood is coming around to his candidacy. 
Hollywood star Dennis Quaid has come out in support of Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor — in another sign Hollywood is coming around to his candidacy. 
The actor, who starred in “Far from Heaven,” “The Big Easy” and “The Substance,” backed the independent candidate in a Fox News interview Wednesday. 
“Go Spencer Pratt,” Quaid said when asked about the LA mayor’s race last week. 
When asked why, Quaid appeared puzzled. 
“Why? 
What are you talking about, why? 
Just look around, man,” he laughed. 
“Mayor Bass had five days warning about what could be record Santa Ana winds, and she chose to go to Ghana anyway,” he said earlier this year. 
Pratt has led his campaign with his support for Palisades Fire victims and his opposition to Bass’s policies and actions surrounding the fires. 
He’s considered a top candidate for LA mayor in the upcoming June 2 primary. 
He filed a complaint against Bass’s campaign on Tuesday for allegedly violating election law by engaging in illegal electioneering. 
“Electioneering within 100 feet of a ballot box is AGAINST THE LAW. 
Soliciting votes at a ballot box is AGAINST THE LAW. 
These clear violations show a reckless disregard for the rule of law and our democratic process,” he wrote on X. 
Other Hollywood actors including Katharine McPhee, Brody Jenner and James Woods have backed Pratt. 
A Cygnal poll released May 20 showed Pratt in second place with 22% of the vote as Bass led with 25%, and socialist Councilwoman Nithya Raman took up third place with 18% support. 
Follow the latest on Spencer Pratt: 
The California Post endorses Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor 
Spencer Pratt rumbles moment Karen Bass ‘breaks the law’ during bitter war for LA mayor, files complaint 
Spencer Pratt reveals stunning West Coast destination for LA’s homeless if he wins election: ‘The mayor will welcome them’ 
Spencer Pratt blasts ‘checked out’ Nithya Raman as homeless fight grinds to a halt 
Spencer Pratt’s latest campaign ad puts LA’s filthy streets on blast: ‘Imagine if the streets were this clean’ 
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447 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers34%attributed speech295writer words
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Selected voice

Spencer Pratt

100%flagged-word coverage
42 attributed words28% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%27.5%55.0%Unattributed Quote+52.4 ptsWriter: 0.0%Spencer Pratt: 52.4%52.4%Quote-first Misdirection-5.8 ptsWriter: 5.8%Spencer Pratt: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -5.8 ptsWriter: 5.8%Spencer Pratt: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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