News of the child pornography case against [liberal, FYI] San Francisco talk radio host Bernie Ward gets creepier and creepier, as you might expect. The Smoking Gun has posted the 19-page police report on the case, which includes transcripts of IM conversations between Ward and the dominatrix he was chatting with, who turned him into the cops. Gold star for her. When he says "every so often an opportunity presents itself" to play with children, it's only a matter of time until his downfall. Selected transcripts after the jump—we've left in the key parts, legally speaking, but edited out most of the overt nastiness.

San Francisco talk radio host Bernie Ward was instant messaging with a dominatrix around Christmastime a couple of years back when, about an hour into the conversation, he decides to send her a picture in which two underage kids are allegedly touching an adult "in a sexual way." Of course the dominatrix then called the cops, and now Ward is facing child pornography charges, and is claiming the whole thing was a misunderstanding because he was doing journalistic research for a book. The local ABC affiliate offered extensive coverage casting doubt on Ward's defense, then nearly ruined all that hard work by running this ad alongside their child porn reporting:

Bernie Ward, for those of you who don't listen to local talk radio, is a liberal commentator who won a Scripps award for his investigative reporting on sexual misconduct among the local Catholic clergy. Ward himself was indicted Thursday on two counts of sending and receving child pornography online. Ward's lawyer claims the former priest made an "error of judgement" while researching a book.