{"id":222,"date":"2010-02-03T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/02\/03\/100203_glennbeck\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:42:43","slug":"100203_glennbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/02\/03\/100203_glennbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Beck Fisks Huffington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the Golden Years of Blogging, around 2001, a practice known as “fisking” came about, and it provided many hours of enjoyable snarkiness. If you’re relatively knew to blogging, or if you have an actual life, you may not be familiar with the term, which is defined on Wikipedia<\/a> as:<\/p>\n

A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story.
\nA really stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly
\nfactual; flaming or hand-waving is considered poor form.<\/div>\n

I don’t see much fisking nowadays (which could be attributed to the fact that I don’t spend much time reading political blogs) and I miss it just a bit. So it’s good to know that the practice hasn’t vanished completely, and in fact has been adopted by the edgier members of the Legacy Media.<\/p>\n

Following is a clip of Glenn Beck applying a proper fisking to the infinitely annoying Arianna Huffington. Now, I’m not a big GB fan; his style occasionally approaches the Infinite Annoyance that Huffington has somehow managed to exceed. Nevertheless, our ideologies have much in common, and he’s an equal opportunity skewerer when it comes to calling out chumps on both sides of the political aisle (and, believe me, there are plenty of them…enough to fill out, say, a whole branch or two of federal government). And, as he shows in the following video, Beck knows how to administer a proper fisking. Enjoy.<\/p>\n