Regarding the White House press access thing, here's another possibility: you're a conservative who whats to crow about liberal media outlets getting shafted, and you feel the need to defend your "free speech absolutist" credentials in terms that you would -never- use if the political positions of the actors in this case were reversed.

I would be very surprised if that were true.  What with the part where I regularly read Vox and the Atlantic and the NYT, and the part where I vote for Democrats, and like that.

But hey – it’s possible!  The world is full of secret wonders!