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John Kasich: Total Dork or Hip Hop Gangsta?

Yo, John Kasich is down with the kids. He's OG fly, aight? (Translation: He is an original gangster, old school-style cool, okay?) He's been friends with Bono for a long time, okay? And he knows about EVERYBODY dope on the music scene --- Lil Wayne, Kanye, Nicki Minagi, Ariana Grande. At least, that's the vibe the governor of Ohio tried to pull off on a recent stint as guest host on The View.

While interviewing the very humble (insert sarcasm) rap artist 2 Chainz, Kasich tried to connect by namedropping in what can only be called an awkward exchange.

WATCH: John Kasich Meets 2 Chainz, Acts Like a Dork

Doc Thompson, who filled in for Glenn Tuesday on The Glenn Beck Program, commiserated with his fellow Ohioans.

"Once again, people from Ohio this morning were, like, John, come on. Just stop trying to seem relevant. The only thing he didn't do there was remind you that his dad was a postal worker: 'And, by the way, when my dad was on his route, he listened to Nicki Minaj,'" Doc joked.

He ended the segment with a brilliant suggestion: Kasich Kanye 2020.

Enjoy this complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.

DOC: Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck today. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm here with Brad Staggs on The Blaze. And Brandon Morse. We're still looking at the #KidsTerrorismBooks. Get those in. Did you see John Kasich on the view? As a born and bred buckeye.

BRANDON: Uh-huh.

DOC: I am disgraced by John Kasich. He is such a disappointment that my homeland is represented by this. But he was from Pennsylvania. That one's on you, PA. What a goof.

BRANDON: Your state's fading back into the bushes like Homer Simpson.

DOC: The only people who aren't allowed to make fun of John Kasich is New Jersey because you have Chris Christie. And you can't blame them on PA, can you? Horrible. So he's on the view with 2 Chainz.

BRANDON: Oh, 2 Chainz.

DOC: You know who 2 Chainz is, right?

BRAD: Tupac's brother.

[Laughter]

DOC: You know who 2 Chainz is, right?

BRANDON: Yes. He's a rapper.

DOC: Yes, of course.

BRANDON: He does the rap songs.

DOC: You're telling me. I celebrate his entire catalog.

BRANDON: You know that song that's really good. Hang on. It's.

DOC: Rolling in my hoopidy.

BRAD: Did he do that one too?

BRANDON: Who can forget the classic? No lie explicit featuring Drake?

DOC: I remember poll cat and the chicken house, and I think he covered wonder wall, didn't he? Really, really solid stuff. So John Kasich is on the view as a guest with 2 Chainz.

BRANDON: Nice.

BRAD: Unlikely combination.

BRANDON: Yeah, this is a sitcom waiting to happen.

DOC: So somebody at The View said here's our plan for today. Some producer said let's get John Kasich and 2 Chainz.

BRANDON: And a priest all walk into a bar.

DOC: We're going to play some of it. First, 2 Chainz is talking about helping out people in poverty impoverish people, he never saw anybody helping people in his community and John Kasich jumps in.

CHAINZ: I think it's at a point where I'm selling all of this merch, I'm doing tours around the world, I'm being very successful. So, for me, it's a point where I show god that I appreciate.

[Applause]

KASICH: Wow. You know, 2 Chainz, I've been friends with Bono for a long time, and he uses his platform to do many great things around the world, so it's great to hear you do it as a rapper. Let's talk about music for a second. You work with Lil Wayne, you work with Kanye. My daughters and I really used to listen to Kanye. You work with Nicki Minaj, who seems to be working with everybody, including Ariana Grande. So, first of all, how do you pick who want to collaborate with and secondly, is it hard to get some of these folks. I mean to get Nicki Minaj, is it hard to get them to do this with you?

CHAINZ: We've been friends for probably a decade now.

DOC: Okay. Hold it right there. Hold it right there. Number one, you know, Bono.

BRAD: We go way back.

BRANDON: This is one of this classic. Hello, fellow kids. Hi, there.

BRAD: How are you all today.

BRANDON: Are we doing the trip hop today? Are we trip hopping?

DOC: The music, I'm down with it. The new dance steps and all.

BRANDON: I'm a cool kid too.

DOC: Okay.

BRAD: I like to sit around and listen to Kanye with my daughters.

[Laughter]

DOC: Trust me, if his daughters were saying let's listen to the music, dad, you've done something wrong there, just like in Ohio. Seriously. That's not normal. It's not natural if your kids are saying dad --

BRANDON: That was representative of his entire 2016 campaign too right there. That same feeling just washed over me. I remember that now. I remember it now.

DOC: It's an embarrassment for him.

BRANDON: Like, sit down, sit down, sit down. Awe.

DOC: Once again, people from Ohio this morning were, like, John, come on. Just stop trying to seem relevant. The only thing he didn't do there was remind you that his dad was a postal worker. And, by the way, when my dad was on his route, he listened to Nicki Minaj. He knew one day she would be big.

[Laughter]

Just hearing him say 2 Chainz. In fact, let's listen to this again. When he starts name dropping. Well, 2 Chainz.

CHAINZ: I'm selling merch, I'm doing tours around the world, I'm being really cancel of. So, for me, I feel I have to show God that I appreciate.

[Applause]

KASICH: Wow. You know, 2 Chainz, I've been friends with Bono for a long time, and he uses his platform to do many great things around the world, so it's great to hear you do it as a rapper. Let's talk about music for just a second. You work with Lil Wayne, you work with Kanye. My daughters and I really used to love to listen Kanye. You work with Nicki Minaj, who seems to be working with everybody, including Ariana Grande.

DOC: Okay. Okay. Yes, how about that Lil Wayne?

BRAD: Surprised he didn't bring up 2 Chainz former name. And give him the benefit of the doubt and say Tity boi. Tity boi.

DOC: Here's the question. And John Kasich, you're welcome to call in. (888) 727-Beck. I'll have you on.

BRANDON: Defend yourself, please, sir.

DOC: You're welcome on this or my morning radio program on The Blaze radio network. Please, were you the one who said, hey, girls, I've got something I would like you to hear. Let me put this on the ol' high fidelity for you there. I've got the quadriphonic sound.

BRANDON: Mr. West.

DOC: His name is Kanye. Or were they, like, hey, dad, check this out. And you're, like, wow, it has a snappy beat, and I can dance to it. Which way was it? Who unveiled Kanye to the other?

BRANDON: Because he had to do a little research before this.

DOC: Oh, yeah. You can see he was so trying to go there.

BRANDON: He was like the Kanye. This isn't stuff he talks about.

DOC: His people were, like, governor, 2 Chainz is going to be on with you. Who?

BRANDON: Both of them?

DOC: Are they twins. Don't worry. We've done some prep work for you. Because you have a briefer. Just say Lil Wayne. I'm sorry. Say little Wayne and Kanye. Just get Kanye down.

BRANDON: As soon as you say Kanye, you're solid.

DOC: You're good.

BRANDON: If he does listen to it with his fathers, that's a horrible father. We just heard a clip of 2 Chainz music earlier, and it was pretty X-rated.

BRAD: Yeah.

BRANDON: It's a little X-rated.

DOC: Yeah, he's dropping the N word and everything else, it's typical rap music. But that's not the issue. He's just sucking up to the celebrity on the show. So they have the two of them on, and starts asking 2 Chainz questions. He's interviewing him. So how does that how do they collaborate?

BRANDON: His writing partners.

DOC: Which is, like, standard question that somebody would ask if they really aren't interested. Like, somebody wrote that question for you.

BRANDON: Right.

DOC: He was not engaging in some sort of debate on Socialist views or even music. It's not, like, oh, I love that one song. It's a who do you collaborate with and how do you choose them; right?

BRANDON: I would have had so much respect for Kasich if he actually come in --

DOC: I don't know who the hell you are.

BRANDON: I don't know who you are or what you do. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

DOC: Right. That's what you do. So was he a member of the cast of the view that day?

BRANDON: I'm guessing he was if he was one of the --

DOC: They normally have one guest on.

BRANDON: Right.

DOC: So the view said, who is clearly progressive, said let's go get somebody progressive to fill in, and they went and got a male.

BRANDON: Uh-huh.

DOC: John Kasich's a male; right? He hasn't started identifying differently?

BRANDON: Yeah, I don't know what he identifies as. But from what I can understand right now --

DOC: They went and got a male who shares their views.

BRANDON: Right. Who might have something in common.

DOC: He was a Republican running for president; right? I think that sums it up right there.

BRAD: Yep.

BRANDON: But let's face facts, guys. This is good TV. This awkwardness is good TV.

DOC: Oh, it's wonderful. It's gold, trust me. The more John Kasich can be on camera, not in office, we want him on camera, the better. In fact, I hope John Kasich runs for president over and over. Not be president. Clarification. Don't want him to be president. We just want him to run for president.

BRANDON: We can make a show out of it. We can put yakety sax on whenever he starts talking about it. Dancers behind him.

DOC: This shows John Kasich's level of failure, though. They were talking about giving back to communities and helping out.

BRANDON: Like Bono.

DOC: Like Bono does and whatever. John Kasich still has that big government handout mentality. That's who he is. When he ran for president, he said over and over again how he cut taxes and all of this stuff. He did not. He cut some taxes and raised others. You don't ballet budget when you have deficits by not bringing in more money. It's impossible. It doesn't happen. And you bring in more money in government by taxes. It was a shell game. Look, we lowered taxes overhear. We raised a bunch of taxes over here. John Kasich is likely going to run again. He's probably going to do it. So the more we get that information out before next time is good. But John Kasich still as a Republican has that big government mentality, the hand out mentality. What we need to start doing is telling the world, even the progressives out there, yes, it is our responsibility to take care among us. Us as individuals. Not the government.

BRANDON: Right. Exactly.

DOC: Because the government fails as they do it, as evident the last 240 years. Do we have more or fewer people on poverty even by percentage?

BRANDON: The war on poverty only increased poverty.

DOC: Only increased it. Not effective. And finally, we're called upon as Christians to do it or other people of faith to do it ourselves, and it's better because you're able to monitor. If I give the money to the government, and they redistribute it to people around the globe or around the country, I don't know if somebody in Texas right now if the guy in Seattle is using it properly, if he really needed it. But if I lend money to my buddy Brandon, acquaintance Brandon, it's, like, hey, Brandon, you said you needed to pay rent, but you're hanging out at the Indian casino, and I noticed you bought new clothes and doing drugs and drinking. Maybe you should have put that toward your rent. And there's ways you wasted it as well.

There's ways that are more effective and that's something John Kasich and the view and 2 Chainz don't get.

BRAD: I think Duane Johnson, Tom Hanks is going to beat him.

BRANDON: Is Tom Hanks running now?

DOC: It's going to be Kanye and Kasich.

BRANDON: Trump opened the door. I can see it coming.

DOC: It is. It's west Kasich 2020.

BRANDON: West Kasich. Oh, my god.

DOC: Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Program.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.