Jury-rigged is the polite term. That saying has been around for a long time.
Of course it should have been “jerry-rigged” in the context it was used. “Jury-rigged” has never been intended as a substitute for “”jerry-rugged”, its just another example of a lazy fake journalist who is likely a product of America’s failing public education system that is to busy teaching about alternate life style perversions to bother teaching historical parlance.