This is a stacking of inferences that cannot support a finding of falsehood.
But bad rhetoric is not defamation when it does not include false statements of fact.
No reasonable viewercould (or should) plausibly make that reference.
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He wrote in his ruling, The problem is essentially two-fold.
First, the complained of statements areopinion, not factually false statements, and therefore are not actionable.
This is the news model of today.
But this too is not actionable.
