I had to ask Mr. Pterodactyl once what "fisking" is. Here's Ann Althouse with her take:

...my understanding that to 'fisk' something is to go line-by-line, making devastating attacks against one thing after another. I'll take this as a confirmation.

Anyway, what I did to the Nation article was really almost the opposite of fisking. I cherry-picked one egregious distortion and based my entire post on that. This approach to a post is probably much more common than fisking...