Announcing a New Term: “Harfing”
18th February 2015
Steven Hayward at Powerline proposes a useful new term.
The term “Fisking” apparently originated with someone’s takedown of a really bad column by British journalist Robert Fisk about 10 years back. I never read anything by Fisk, but this is what the Urban Dictionary says:
The word is derived from articles written by Robert Fisk that were easily refuted, and refers to a point-by-point debunking of lies and/or idiocies.
So we need a similar term for debunking the serial nonsense of the Obama Administration. Fortunately an obvious term comes to mind: “Harfing.” After you know who. Helps that it rhymes with a certain act of retching that is also symbolically accurate for the kind of nonsense Marie Harf (and the ironically named “Josh Earnest,” if that is his real name) peddle on a daily basis. I mean really—who knew that “Allahu akbar” means “We want jobs!” Glad we have Harf around to explain it to us. So maybe we can get the headline—at least here on Power Line—”More Harfing from the White House Today.” Almost as good as “More Mush from the Wimp.”