good points but this actual malice is so apparent it is obvious. This was a planed and orchestrated lie in my view. The conversation was on fricken tape on a fisa warrant. That is apparent on the face . IT WAS ON TAPE!! GHow do you screw that up[. The whole thing was turned over top the press — tapes and all. No mulligans here.
Behar, read transcripts, listen to tapes? Don’t you need a room temperature IQ and an attention span longer than your pinky? She relied on Ross. If anyone had malice, it was Ross, but even he would have an excuse. He had such a hard-on he bypassed the fact checkers, and just ran with the story, making up a source, “an intimate.” Plus he can say that the unmasking of Flynn was after the campaign ended, and he misunderstood the “intimate”’s account of the campaign period, and thought he meant that Jared told him to talk to the Russians, instead of just look into ways to improve relations with Russia. No malice, other than the pathological, out-of-touch-with-reality kind.