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The blogosphere term fisking originates from various American conservative blogs, which have taken particular issue with Mr. Fisk, who holds a " very skeptical view of U. S. foreign policy ", and his articles and reports.

Many of these bloggers have responded by reprinting his dispatches on their blogs, adding their own paragraph-by-paragraph commentary, purportedly dissecting and debunking Fisk's facts and opinions.

Irrespective of the success of their endeavour, the term " fisking " has come to denote the practice of " savaging an argument and scattering the tattered remnants to the four corners of the internet ".

In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, actor John Malkovich when asked whom he would most like to " fight to the death ", replied that he would " rather just shoot " journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.

Fisk reacted with outrage at both the comment made by Malkovitch and also for " associating me with a jerk like Galloway ".