This is a classic trick question. Kind of like “Have you stopped beating your wife?” The better way to handle this is to have the person making the claim that Rush said this, prove it. Have him provide actual source material.
Agreed. Have them provide the EXACT source of the quotes.........and not in the length of a ‘sound byte’, either. Those can be taken completely out of context.
While yours is good, I would say that the first step would be to agree on a definition of “racism” that does not include references to a ^specific^ race.
Then make the opponent prove the statements (some I do recall) are Rush’s and then how they fit into the already agreed upon definition of racism.