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Definitions
Etymologies
- Named after journalist Robert Fisk. Originated in the blogosphere. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you’re interested in fisking Beck’s pronouncements, or more importantly in looking to Beck for a comparative review of European political movements, then pity’s not strong enough of a word for my feeling towards you. joe from Lowell says:”
“Today Eli ran across a rather longer fisking aka comment, by another Mike, Michael MacCracken, hosted on Climate Science Watch.”
“The term fisking – which you dont use but merely link to – is such a childish and clunky phrase that slanders a true journalist.”
“It's called fisking and it's been around forever in internet time that is.”
“I'm not normally big on fisking as a form of commentary, but Travers has stacked so many grotesque opinions, misleading statements, and easily-refuted conclusions into one article that a fisking is the only appropriate way to deal with his viral strain of ignorance.”
“Om Malik responds to my earlier post aka fisking of his B2.0 article.”
“Why am I wasting my time "fisking" an anonymous Nazi?”
“Kate A - thank you again for a wonderful post I don't know how you find the energy or indeed the facts - I did pay tribute to your writing on "witchfinder balls" yesterday and I don't want to patronise you so I will just say how grateful I am that someone else is bothering to refute the "fisking" I have been getting from Mike - lol phil”
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“We have to assume that Lileks wants us to take his "fisking" seriously, but he must realize that what he is complaining about in GK's writing is just a mirror image of his own work?”
“Like lbs, I am wondering where this 'fisking' verb has come from?”
Should Tory Bloggers Be More Aggressive in Defending Themselves?
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The New Poly-Sci Dictionary
Common Blogosphere terms
mouth breather, knuckledragger, freeper, astroturfing, reactionary, false flag, pig, flatearther, wingnut, fascist, fifth columnist, quisling and 60 more...
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Kay Ballard's Pilfered Words
Delightful words and phrases pilfered from the writings of others.
co-thinker, aimless privacy, expelled by my age, unbidden but anti..., aggregate mass, future-blindness, fisking, blagoblivious, selfing, anonymosity, serendipitous fin...
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kayballard A line-by-line, or paragraph-by-paragraph, refutation of an odious written work, often with an acidic or sardonic tone. Pilfered from Public Intellectual 2.0, William Beutler. Jan 15, 2009