A mode of communication;

We have many means of communication, and many mediums. We also have much to say. This blog provides for anonymous moderated comment, for example.

I am referring to persuasive speech when I use the word "mode." The method I am fumbling into words is one I first observed in "The Da Vinci Code." The fiction lays claim to so many inaccuracies from trivia to epic catalog that books have been written in commentary.

The point is this. If you can monologue an audience long enough that your mistakes can no longer be addressed in dignified order, you may (in the end) say anything you wish without credible rebuttal.

I have no name for this mode of communication, but I cite another example here. I also see this mode of communication commonly in political commentary on television.