John Malone has been all over technology trade headlines during the past week, for all the wrong reasons. The great cable cowboy rambled his way through most part of a lengthy CNBC interview like a fish out of water when discussing the direct to consumer streaming landscape, while most industry coverage has sympathetically focused on Malone’s comments on markets much closer to home. Soon to be sitting prominently on the board of merged media powerhouse Warner Bros. Discovery (pending regulatory approval), Malone will become one of the world’s most powerful video streaming businessmen almost overnight. If Faultline had to pick one actually useful takeaway from Malone’s hour-long interview with CNBC’s David Faber, it’s that he does not want the merged…