Avira says: Who was the Rayatz supposedly debating? A random am haaretz who happened to be a litvak who maybe said some nonsense?
Good point, but this is a fallacy flund all around. There are several stories that the Briskers repeat often aling the same lines, of how one of their Rabbeim responded to a random, perhaps unlearned, Chossid (who spoke in a way that no Chossid worth his money would speak).