We all know that the leftist media hasn’t been objective for a long time now. Even so, it’s still a bit shocking to hear them admit their agenda out loud. That is what MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell did on Thursday’s episode of The Last Word, in which he flat-out admitted to baiting his guests into airing their personal grievances against President Trump. At the same time, he blamed Trump for making politics personal.  O’Donnell hosted former Secretary of State John Kerry, who served in the Obama administration and negotiated the JCPOA deal with Iran, onto his show Wednesday to discuss the new U.S.-Iran MOU that had recently been signed by Trump’s administration. During that interview, O’Donnell, in his own words, “invited [Kerry] to get personal about Donald Trump,” though Kerry refused to take the bait: I think that what really needs to be focused on here is not bad or any kind of personal pieces here, in my judgment. I mean, there's no place for the personal here.      It’s hard to imagine the political world without the personal animus held between members of government, and also between the people and those they view as ‘opposition.’ But the biggest reason for the increasing polarization between political parties and viewpoints has no doubt been the media. The media -- especially on cable TV -- thrives on riling people up against others. And the leftist networks have gotten that down to a science by this point. You can look at the several assassination attempts against Trump, violence against ICE, the murder of Charlie Kirk, or any number of politically motivated attacks for evidence. Left-wing domestic terrorism and violence has been prevalent around the globe since the French Revolution. And yet, despite claiming to denounce the recent spike in political violence, CNN, MS NOW, ABC, and other liberal media have stoked the use of violent rhetoric against Republicans. But if you ask O’Donnell, he has a simple answer for why our political rhetoric is so fraught nowadays: The United States Senate used to be mostly filled with people like John Kerry, who would never publicly indulge their personal feelings when discussing or voting on what they thought was best for America. And then came Donald Trump, who can walk into a closed room with Republican Senators, call Lisa Murkowski 'a horrible person.' And they all sit there in pathetic, cowardly silence. . . Because for Donald Trump, there is nothing but the personal.  As Michael Jackson once put it, O’Donnell really should look at “the man in the mirror.” He denounced “personal” politics while doing the exact opposite on his show. He admitted that John Kerry was “a bigger person” than he was, because O’Donnell can’t help but make everything personal. And he wants the guests who come on his show to do the same thing.  The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 6/25/26 10:12:52 p.m. Eastern (...) LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: And last night, I invited John Kerry on this program when he was a guest here to say, 'I told you so.' And he proved himself, once again, to be a bigger person than I am.  [Cut to interview] O'DONNELL: What is it like for you now when you see Donald Trump desperately trying to negotiate the deal that you negotiated, desperately trying to claw back to get to the point that you got to.  You're not the 'I told you so' type, that's not the kind of phrase you would use, but that's certainly the posture we all think you have a right to be sitting in tonight. JOHN KERRY: Well, Lawrence, let me just say to you that I think that what really needs to be focused on here is not bad or any kind of personal pieces here, in my judgment. I mean, there's no place for the personal here.  This is really a matter of what's good diplomacy, what's good for the United States, what's good outcome. [Cut back to live] O'DONNELL: There's a lion of the Senate. John Kerry served 28 years in the United States Senate.  That's the way it used to be. You don't make it personal. That is what decency looks like. That is what honor sounds like.  'There's no place for the personal here.' That's what John Kerry said when I invited him to get personal about Donald Trump lying about him for years and what he accomplished as Secretary of State in his nuclear agreement with Iran. 'There's no place for the personal.' That's what he told me.  Washington used to be filled with people like John Kerry. The United States Senate used to be mostly filled with people like John Kerry, who would never publicly indulge their personal feelings when discussing or voting on what they thought was best for America.  And then came Donald Trump, who can walk into a closed room with Republican Senators, call Lisa Murkowski 'a horrible person.' And they all, they all sit there in pathetic, cowardly silence, with one of them going out later and telling the press that Donald Trump was completely justified in being so angry at them. Because for Donald Trump, there is nothing but the personal. And for the Republicans who have put the United States Senate in Donald Trump's service, there is nothing but living the rest of their lives in disgrace.  (...)