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FYI: Straw Man Fallacy
The Straw Man fallacy is a rhetorical technique that caricatures the opponent's position to make it easier to attack. The metaphor is of someone who builds a straw man or scarecrow and then knocks it down and gloats over his accomplishment. This is not much of an accomplishment, though, because the idea attacked is not the idea the opponent held in the first place. The one using the straw man ploy attacks his own understanding of his opponent's opinion -- not his opponent's actual position.
In the present example, the attacker has done more than caricature the opponent's position, he has deliberately mis-stated it. It's a switch in the usual attack method, and even less of an accomplishment.
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