The practice of sifting through the comments of blogs, email threads, discussion groups and other user generated content in an attempt find choice quotes proving that the advocates for or against a particularpolitical opinion are unreasonable, uninformed extremists.
When Jonah has no substantive arguments for his point, he frequently resorts to nutpicking in order to demonizeprogressives.
Someoen who, rather than attack the merits of your argument will bring up completely irrelevant shit, like how you mispronounced a word or, in the case of the internet, typed a word wrong.
Person 1: That makes absolutely no fjcking sense!
Person 2 (Nitpick): Oh, I'm so sorry that didnt make any *fjcking* sense. Jesus, anyone who types the word fucking wrong must be an idiot. I win the argument.
When finishing a knitting project, there are ends of yarn that stick out. "Knitpicking" is the act of removing these ends of yarn.
Knitpicking is given this name because it is tedious and time-consuming, and is something many knitters hate.
Knitpicking is done by taking a needlepoint needle or similar and running the excess yarn under the inside of the garment several times, then cutting off the excess.