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It's the Media Buzzmeter with Howard Kurtz.

So this turned out to be an utterly BS story.

In the American edition of London's son,

Philadelphia Eagles planned to snub an invitation to the White House

after winning the Super Bowl.

And I jotted it down, I've got to talk about this,

and the White House denied it.

It turns out the invitation to the team has not even gone out yet.

And probably the Eagles will go to the White House.

Now, I'm sure there are some on the team that don't want to go because they don't like Donald Trump.

But, you know, it's just a classic example

of something that bounces around the Internet

and the original source is just flat wrong.

Meanwhile, the other night at the SAG Awards,

Jane Fonda, you know, legendary actress

but also liberal activist,

she didn't mention Trump's name, but she talked about, make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke.

By the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.

She said a whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening.

Even if there are a different political persuasion, we need not judge but listen from our hearts.

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