“Friday, at 12:23 p.m. … Romney made a crack about [his] birth certificate … The Washington Post’s Phil Rucker tweeted the remark at 12:23 … [T]weets with the phrase ‘birth certificate’ went … to 138-per-minute in … four minutes … At 12:27, POLITICO posted Romney’s remark online. In the same minute, the Washington Post asked, ‘Did Mitt Romney make a birther joke?’ At 12:28, BuzzFeed posted video of Romney’s remarks to YouTube. At 12:41 p.m., the Romney campaign issued a response. … Three minutes later — 21 minutes after Romney’s comments — the Obama campaign provided its own interpretation of events, accusing Romney of being a ‘birther.’”
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