1) The result of a sudden compulsion to lie, embellish, deceive, pander, flip flop, fake, or make up facts.
2) something classless and untrue that was said; get called out for your mendacity; the repetition of the falsehood under the cynical assumption that voters are easily fooled and there will be no consequences.
Did you hear about the Romnincident where this guy running for office told Latinos to vote for him because he will make Spanish the official language of the USA but then the very next day told the Jamaicans to vote for him because he'd make Patois the official language of the USA? What a douche!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)