After years of wall-to-wall news coverage of the intemperate messages the president is tapping out on his phone, we’re about to get a break. 
Democratic congressional candidate Valerie Plame returned to Twitter on Sunday despite blaming the social media website for her decision to share several anti-Semitic articles. 
NBC News reporter Kasie Hunt declared Wednesday that character issues for politicians would be put to rest with a female candidate in office, imploring viewers to "elect a woman, please." 
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) retweeted a Monday tweet mocking an assault on Sen. Rand Paul (R, Ky.) that left Paul hospitalized. 
The Express, a free daily newspaper published by the Washington Post, wrongly identified segregationist Democratic senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge as Republicans in a Friday issue. 
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's (D., Hawaii) campaign criticized "media giants ruled by corporate interests" in a fundraising email sent out on Saturday. The email also suggests journalism is being used against her campaign in a manner akin to 1950s-era McCarthyism. 