cherry sniping

Cherry sniping is the act of picking out a small section of an opponent's argument in a debate and focusing all attention on that specific argument in the response while discarding the rest.

The purpose of this is to shift the subject into a more easily-defendable position and deflect valid points made by the opponent.

Most commonly this occurs in cycles, with one participant's responses being asinine one-liners while the other's are educated and well-sourced, albeit lengthy.

If you're just going to keep wasting my time by cherry sniping, then why am I still here?