I can't really see someone using a loaded image like "or do they look like graveyards" unless they already have a preconceived notion of the answer that they wish to imprint on the public consciousness. It's an example of an either/or argument where neither extreme may be accurate, but there is no room allowed for anything in between, so the reader is expected to choose the less inaccurate at the expense of arriving at the actual picture. It may be considered as relevant, but only if you attribute the causality of numbers in the program to the individuals, not the nature of the program itself or environmental factors, which may or may not involve a false premise.
We could go on to talk about ad hominem arguments, but I don't want to burn myself out tonight...gotta save some to teach that AP Rhetoric and Composition class in the morning.
