Newseum Gift Shop Merchandise Draws Delightful Howls of Pain From the Media

If you really want to see the liberal mob howl, just go into a place they think that is their private ghetto and have a little fun.

One of those places is the Newseum in Washington, DC. It is a onanistic monument to the role the news media thinks it plays in American society that, ironically, has the same financial stability and popularity as the media itself. As far as I can tell, it is kept afloat by field trips of school kids in the DC suburbs.

Naturally, it times of crisis, decisions can smack of desperation.

The Newseum is selling MAGA hats and ‘fake news’ T-shirts https://t.co/zkwh6sa4qa pic.twitter.com/IqcFWMN6kF

— Poynter (@Poynter) August 3, 2018

That’s right, the Newseum, the monument to the institutional press, is selling Fake News t-shirts and MAGA hats. Reactions are sadly predictable:

why in the world is the @Newseum
selling MAGA hats? what? https://t.co/KHhzDTyY5F pic.twitter.com/8fZLr9b7Rj

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 3, 2018

NEW: @newseum defends selling Fake News tshirts in gift shop. The Exhibits Honor Journalism; The Gift Shop Sells ‘Fake News’ via @NYTimes https://t.co/GKHu6oHkfx

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 3, 2018

You can get this Trump coloring book on the Newseum site for 12.99. I literally remember this being handed out at Trump campaign rallies. pic.twitter.com/A4DeX8iI6n

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 3, 2018

A “You Are Fake News” t-shirt costs $19.97, at an institution that is literally exists to “to increase public understanding of the importance of a free press and the First Amendment.” pic.twitter.com/AcgrriHTwK

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 3, 2018

I actually think I see tears on this guy’s tweets.

.@Newseum has a memorial to journalists killed while reporting. So why are they selling “fake news” shirts? It’s one thing to sell political paraphernalia … it’s another to promote a phrase authoritarian regimes around the world use to stop a free press https://t.co/j30qEyttmJ

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) August 3, 2018

.@Newseum, as a reporter, you just lost my business.

— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) August 3, 2018

Knickers Status: twisted, wadded, and filled with broken glass.

And the award lack of self-awareness:

This t-shirt doesn’t belong anywhere. It particularly doesn’t belong at the @Newseum, a place that celebrates journalism and has the First Amendment etched in stone outside its building. https://t.co/7ecmjcGOyq pic.twitter.com/AhEgRVA7wE

— Matt Viser (@mviser) August 3, 2018

This sort of shows what we always knew. Free speech means the media have free speech and no one else does.

So *you’re saying that a building that has the First Amendment etched in stone outside the building should not be selling T-Shirts with certain kinds of speech on them? https://t.co/sxLLQGVMdi

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 3, 2018

I am sorely tempted to buy a Fake News t-shirt…though not so tempted as to give the Newseum my money. But the entertainment value they are providing is truly epic and serves as a public service announcement to America about what the media is really a concerned with: power.

How about a Newseum shirt showing Zucker and Scarborough with their 2015 ratings while they were promoting Trump in the primaries? “Anything For a Buck!”

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 3, 2018

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