Agreed. It's a classic use of an illusionary pole of continuum designed to make the middle point seem reasonable and to make on pole seem more extreme than it really is.
It's also my bugbear -- it's the rhetorical technique that annoys me more than any other. "On one side you have people who believe health care is a human right" "on the other side you have people who believe health care should only be given to people named 'sam' , clearly, the answer must be in the middle" Of course "team Sam" either doesn't exist or exists but consists of three people or less.
