Rosen "Worst Person" "runner-up" for Mao comment

During the February 25 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News Washington correspondent James Rosen the "runner-up" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for asserting that the response Sen. Barack Obama received from the crowd at a campaign event was "[t]hat kind of spontaneous affection Chairman Mao only dreamed of." Olbermann stated: "The runner-up: James Rosen, who plays a reporter on Fixed News, ran a clip of Senator Obama interrupting himself to say, 'I'm going to blow my nose here for a second,' followed by crowds cheering. Rosen then said, quote, 'That kind of spontaneous affection Chairman Mao only dreamed of.' And that kind of spontaneous hack journalism Karl Rove only dreamed of."

From the February 25 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: The runner-up: James Rosen, who plays a reporter on Fixed News, ran a clip of Senator Obama interrupting himself to say, "I'm going to blow my nose here for a second," followed by crowds cheering. Rosen then said, quote, "That kind of spontaneous affection Chairman Mao only dreamed of." And that kind of spontaneous hack journalism Karl Rove only dreamed of.

—A.I.