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Alex Knepper may have a penchant for the occasional uncouth sexual joke, but Swindle's assertion that he represents a danger to children is entirely unwarranted -- and potentially libelous.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

Swindle's intellectual kin are the people who collect porno magazines and then claim that they're just looking at them to examine how ugly the secular world is.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

All the lurid details are all available at Swindle's copiously sourced blog entry on the matter.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

All the lurid details are all available at Swindle's copiously sourced blog entry on the matter.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

Knepper was not even asked to comment before Swindle's blog post was published; presumably, some mitigating contextualization could have been provided -- and now it is too late.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

Swindle's intellectual kin are the people who collect porno magazines and then claim that they're just looking at them to examine how ugly the secular world is.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

But Swindle has not satisfactorily established that Knepper actually poses a threat to anyone; aside from inference based on his political writings, Swindle's only evidence is cherry-picked from GayTeenForum's massive archive of digital debauchery.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

Alex Knepper may have a penchant for the occasional uncouth sexual joke, but Swindle's assertion that he represents a danger to children is entirely unwarranted -- and potentially libelous.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

I cannot speak conclusively to Swindle's true motivation for launching this attack, and a desire to protect children may well be his overriding concern.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

I cannot speak conclusively to Swindle's true motivation for launching this attack, and a desire to protect children may well be his overriding concern.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010