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I don't mind what used to be called the Fisking of stories in the media.
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It is called Fisking and I will exercise my First amendment rights anyway I see fit, thank you very much.
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It is called Fisking and I will exercise my First amendment rights anyway I see fit, thank you very much.
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For the record, when right-wing websites perform a takedown they call it "Fisking".
About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities. Ann Althouse 2007
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"Fisking" got started -- I think -- after a single instance of someone fisking a Fisk article.
Not fisking. Ann Althouse 2005
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It's not that there is any meaningful equivalence between the Founding White Patriarchs and the Fisks, Moores, or whohaveyous but that "Fisking" is tired, juvenile, and silly.
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Although I lean towards the Right, and therefore the Forces of Evil, whenever I see someone use the term "Fisking" I know I can skip what comes next, as it will be an awfully self-indulgent and lazy style of vitriolic refutational argument.
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I sure as hell never read his stuff or heard of him until recently but I got "Fisking" immediately...
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This is my first attempt at a "Fisking" so bear with me.
Archive 2002-05-01 2002
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This kind of attitude reminds me of the old just-after-9/11 anti-idiotarian movement, where people spent a bunch of time “Fisking” Noam Chomsky and somehow let torture, warrantless wiretapping and unnecessary wars slip by.
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