At the 2012 Republican National Convention, members of the media received modest gift bags. The contents included a copy of Mitt Romney’s book No Apologies, a Tampa Bay Storm beer koozie and some breath mints.

Not all journalists were impressed. The website Gawker ran an unflattering headline about the GOP convention “swag bag” that cannot be printed in a family publication, though their assessment of the Democrats’ offerings was even meaner.