I agree with you. I think ALLen hads got unfairly bashed.
My concern is that ALLEN is not perceived by people that might enjoy such literature(that are like his books) as being called perverts by him.
Save your concern. Allen doesn't have to say much, just put the info out there. The WP has been acting as Webb's surrogate for months. I could care less about how the "literature" is perceived by those who enjoy it. It won't hurt Allen.
But don't you think even if this is good literature (and it may be), it's screwed up? It's always struck me that great novelists are a tad mentally unstable. How many great authors would you really want to be a senator? That does not mean they are not fantastic novelists...just that they are not particularly suitable for high public office.
If Webb was attacking Allen for obscure comments from his youth, why is it out of bounds to question what he has actually written and published? It just seems fair to me given the circumstances. And he is not saying that Webb is involved in this stuff, just that he wonders what kind of character conceives of such things.