Joining in the overwrought media reaction to the White House barring a CNN reporter from a Rose Garden event on Wednesday, on Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Daily Beast Politics Editor Sam Stein urged the press corps to join together in a “collective pact” to “punish” the Trump administration.

After defending CNN White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins shouting several questions during President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker, Stein ranted: “So what we’re left with is a petty, vindictive, scared, temperamental White House that is taking steps that are unprecedented for administrations to take.”

He complained that the over-hyped controversy “was wholly predictive,” citing his experience reporting on the 2016 campaign: “I was at The Huffington Post during the 2016 campaign when my outlet was barred from covering Donald Trump rallies.” Stein called for his media colleagues to unite against the White House:

And at that point in time, the press should have taken upon itself to form some sort of collective pact to say, “If you do this, you will be punished in this way, this way, or this way.” The problem is, the Correspondents’ Association hasn’t gotten to that point yet. And there needs to more solidarity among members of the Correspondents’ Association so that this stuff actually has a penalty associated with it.

Perhaps Stein hasn’t been watching the press coverage of the Trump administration, but the “punishment” is already delivered on a daily basis.

Here is a transcript of the July 26 exchange: