Talk show host Jake Pentland takes on the recent midterm elections that resulted in major gains for Republican candidates.
Pentland said that despite the significant political gains in the U.S. Senate and House, he actually was surprised that the GOP didn’t do even better than they did.
“I think the shock is sort of feigned, I think it’s just another story line. I know how this business works – every facet of it, not just the news – there’s producers who sit in rooms who say, ‘what would be interesting? What would play to this demographic, and this is probably a story that some 27-year-old producer fresh out of college thought about this and said ‘let’s talk about the shock.’”
Pentland – who grew up in the shadow of her famous mother Roseanne Barr – said that generally he is over politics because of continued the gridlocked and rhetoric and lack of tangible results.
He talks about his mom’s last run for president as a third party candidate after losing the Green Party nomination. “We did a documentary following her run for presidency, and the entire documentary is about trying to run under a third party.” He also points out that his mother made her run with very little money and instead took advantage of Skype and social media to propel her campaign.
Watch the full episode to also hear Pentland’s views on modern feminism and the new resurgence of opposition to Obamacare.
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