RUSH: Now, something else happened. This is amazing. The Washington Post reported that the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has a directive that nobody in the office is allowed to look him in the eye. Nobody is allowed to make eye contact with him. It’s that Tillerson doesn’t spend much time working, that he goes to his office and closets himself in there and does nothing but read. (Probably reports on oil drilling or some such.) But he goes in there, he shelters himself. He doesn’t want to deal with the people in the State Department.
You’re not allowed to make eye contact. You’re not allowed to look at him. You’re not allowed to interrupt him. You’re not allowed to do anything. He goes in there for hours on end and just retreats from the world and from the job, and an AP reporter has come out and said that that is BS. The AP reporter is… Matt Lee is his name. He’s the beat reporter at the State Department for the last 18 years. He went on Twitter to dispute this story in the Washington Post and to lament that bad reporting is making it more difficult to get any reporting on real issues at the State Department because of this. His tweet read:
Proving — proving — that in many cases, what journalism is about is access,
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