The study of the nature, grammatics, presentational parameters, and metrics of purposely deceptive online headlines, graphics, and other engineered messages intended principally to mislead the viewer into clicking onlinelinks that benefit the deceptor financially, politically, or socially.
The deceptionomics of that website doesn't allow it to permit an iota of truth to emerge.
Deceptionomically, it wouldn't make sense for the candidate to concede the truth of even a part of the allegations.
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. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)