The public flogging that takes place on C-SPAN of government officials, corporate bigshots, et al. Usually manifested in the form of relentless, fact-based interrogation by Members of Congress on unsuspecting (yet arrogant) government officials appearing before Congressional subcommittees when they try to pull a fast one by spouting fuzzy logic to defend/justify their reasoning for inane decisions that would inevitably harm American citizens and their descendants. (e.g., knuckleheaded spending programs, tax increases, etc.)
Search YouTube for "Rep Paul Ryan questions OMB Peter Orszag on President Obama's budget savings" .... Orszag undeniably received a "C-SPANking (Root: C-SPANk)" from by Rep "Bulldog" Ryan...he was owned!
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)