Pete Townshend continues adamantly to deny that he’s a child-porn enthusiast. He’s now saying that he stumbled onto a child-porn site by “accident” once, and only visited them three or four times, and then only to see how horrid the things were. But why did that one site have his credit-card information? Townshend says he foolishly provided his credit card to the site. An honest mistake. Look, I’m in no position to judge whether or not Pete Townshend is a pedophile, but this alibi is pathetic. What kind of legitimately curious rich and famous celebrity gives his credit-card number to child pornographers on a lark? Pete Townshend didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday; you’d have to be really stupid to believe that he didn’t understand that child pornography is and was illegal, and that his purchasing child porn — which is what he did — could possibly be on the up and up. If his credit-card number had been found in the records of a drug dealer, and he admitted that he had once purchased cocaine “just to see what was out there,” would that get him off the hook? Puh-leeze.