Rush should be careful with this one. First, we don't know which version of History would be debated - reality or the liberal version. Second, would any rebuttal by Rush simply be considered hate speech and ignored as an example of the politics of personal destruction. And Finally, would the media hail the opinions of these children even greater if Rush tore them apart in the debate. Most liberals come to fame after great failures in their political and cultural past.
I think he would have to prove that his remarks were accurate...
That to me would be the test...
If they can show that he was wrong in his evaluation..
They would win..
Ahhh...TRUE....first, Determine "the grounds" (Sun Tzu)/Rules/Benchmarks of the debate.
You can set your watch by the fact that Rush isn't going to "debate" in a forum in which others control the microphone. You want to debate Rush, you call his program . . . and stay on the air at his pleasure.Which is more consideration than Dan Rather or Walter Cronkite ever gave any conservative.
Rush is always careful, I would not worry about him, but there are undoubtably kids in this school who do know their history. If nothing else, my son was an avid History Channel watcher, and found that he knew much more than what was actually taught when he got to the history classes. Scored 4 out of 5 on the History AP exam in his junior year. NOw he also knows enough history to be able to differentiate between the liberal version and the real version, so Rush would not have to convince him of anything.
My point in raising this is that the school could not all depabe Rush, If they could, he would leave them in their collective dust, but two or three students may be offered instead and they may know their stuff. Now if the question was whether they studied the right things or not, How is Rush going to convince them that they studied the wrong things? Maybe he could convince an audience that their education was inferior, but likely they would score points on the things they covered well -- America was racist and still is, corporations have made lots of money and corporation leaders have gotten rich, for a long time we increased the level of polution before laws forced us to clean up... So you see, they would focus on their history, Rush would focus on a much broader range of ideas including that this is the greatest country the world has ever seen, but he may not win many hearts and minds among the youth of public education.
Opps, I see we agree completely, I just expanded on what you posted.