SOME LEGAL ADVICE FOR KENNETH BAER: Worth reading.

UPDATE: Related post here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Tom Huheey emails:

On MSNBC at 10:30-10:40pm Lanny Davis. trying to defend Kerry, did the worse job I have ever seen him do. He held up well through all the Clinton scandals but he appeared to be holding a losing hand tonight.

I didn’t see it, but my sense is that this has the Kerry folks pretty rattled, as well it should. I think that Kerry was planning on using his Vietnam record as his main weapon in the debates, and now that’s likely to backfire.

MORE: Reader Logan Wright saw it, and observes:

Lanny Davis was worse than terrible in that MSNBC appearance. He accused John O’Neill of knowingly and intentionally lying in his account of John Kerry’s third Purple Heart. Davis’s argument was that Kerry received the third Purple Heart for saving Jim Rassmann’s life, and that O’Neill was a bald-faced liar by denying this. I was practically screaming at the TV that he received the Bronze Star for saving Rassmann’s life, not the third Purple Heart (after all, Kerry wasn’t wounded in the incident). O’Neill had his own version of the Rassmann story. If there were a logical, rational explanation of Kerry’s actions, I think we would have heard it by now.

It’s unfortunate that the press has had so little interest in looking into these things. But maybe they’ll pick up the ball.

MORE: Here’s the transcript from MSNBC. Highlight:

JOHN O‘NEILL, SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH: If John Kerry can prove that he was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 1968, he should go down and sue me tomorrow morning.

It‘s a lie he‘s told over and over and over again. It libels everybody that commanded him. It‘s the typical prototype sort of war crime charge that John Kerry makes that is a lie.

I think that when a veteran trial lawyer invites a lawsuit, it would probably be a mistake to file. . . .