Vestal: We’ve Wronged Barbieri

As someone who initially gloried in the apparent idiocy of Vito Barbieri and his tiny-camera question, I think it might be time for a second opinion: Vito was wronged. Barbieri – whose political ship tacks right so hard that it goes in circles – was saying something ridiculous while questioning a doctor on a bill that would ban doctors from overseeing abortions by videoconference. But it is very, very unlikely that he does not know that a pill swallowed by mouth does not proceed to the vagina, and it is very, very likely that he was posing a rhetorical question, and not a literal one, however inartfully he did it. The resulting brouhaha had as more to do with corrosive assumptions and sneering self-righteousness than biology. On this I plead guilty: I joined in the mockery of Barbieri on Monday, in full confidence and with little evidence/ Shawn Vestal , SR. More here .

Question: Do you agree with columnist Shawn Vestal that we’ve been too quick to mock Rep. Barbieri?