nutpick

plural nutpicks · alternative nut pick

1. USA sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut.

present singular third person nutpicks · participle present nutpicking · participle past nutpicked · past nutpicked

1. InternetTo cherry-pick poor representatives of a viewpoint (i.e., from Internet postings) in order to disparage it.

   Nutpicking has gotten easy over the last few years–just check out the Twitter feeds of Teanderthal Members of Congress.

   2014 January 29, mistermix, “Notes from Last Night’s Putsch”, in Balloon Juice

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   The blog-era term "nutpicking", which refers to cherry-picking the worst or nuttiest comments to disparage a larger group ("liberals", "conservatives", "feminists") by falsely implying the views are widely-held within the group, needs to be revived. It's very common on Twitter.

   [2018 April 23, Nate Silver, Twitter

   If there’s a right-wing analog to the Media Matters machine, it often comes in the ongoing effort to “nutpick” radical professors, highlight their most ridiculous (and often years-old) comments, and try to drive them out of their jobs.

   2019 March 18, David French, “There’s a Fake Outrage Machine on the Right, Also”, in National Review