What It's Like To Cover Live Streaming Of Rand Paul's Day

By John Amato — October 13, 2015

Poor Olivia Nuzzi, she was tasked to cover Rand Paul's 24 hour live streaming event and found it to be somewhat frustrating.

Tomorrow I am excited to bring my message of liberty to the country as the first Pres candidate to live-stream an entire day. #randlive

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 12, 2015

Check out here twitter feed. (h/t Digby)

What is the point of this

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

Rand is frozen again!

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

Rand is frozen

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

Update: Rand is still frozen!

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

Now: a frozen shot of a corn field

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

Still staring at that fucking corn field

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

Update: Rand is still frozen!

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

What I picture whenever Rand Paul's livestream cuts out pic.twitter.com/8P8l8pHaKe

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

What was the premise of Austin Powers again? He was a detective who was frozen in the 60s and then he gets thawed out in 1999?

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

@Olivianuzzi maybe it's not actually frozen, but Rand has been silently staring at a corn field for 15 minutes and contemplating his life

— mothman (@randal1211) October 13, 2015

#randlive @RandPaul can I have these hours of my life back

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2015

I'm so sorry Olivia. (Is she Italian?) What they assigned you to do should qualify for hazardous pay.

Jaimie Fuller writes: Rand Paul Currently Trapped in His Own Truman Show in Iowa

“It will be the Rand Paul campaign’s version of The Truman Show or EdTV," Paul's chief digital strategist told Rare.

So far, the stream has revealed that there is a reason that no presidential candidate has ever broadcast a day of campaigning live, as it mostly entails staring out at corn fields while driving for hours.

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