I think this reader’s being terribly unfair and all that. But I think it’s worth noting — in the spirit of open discourse! — that not everyone thinks NR would win the debate:

Is there some sort of sweeps month for Internet sites, conservative, political, or otherwise? If so, that would go a long way toward explaining the rabble-rousing behavior of NRO lately. Not knowing the periodization of the posited sweeps months, I would theorize that similar rating periods must have occurred during the Dubai Ports and Harriet Miers crises.
I hope the WSJ takes up your overeager challenge; NRO will get its head(s) handed to it, and deservedly so.
Fifty years ago, National Review was founded to drive the cranks back into the woodwork, to unify the conservative base, to dispel the magic of the Birchers. I fear the cranks have taken NRO over, and hope they are driven back into the woodwork soon, if not by internal forces, then external. This debate would be a good start in doing that.
Or is this challenge another big excuse to avoid your oft-promised and still undelivered Star Trek special?