In yesterday’s issue of the Lariat, a columnist wrote that people ought to be more forgiving of Gov. Rick Perry’s mistake in the recent debate. He suggested the elimination of three U.S. government departments but could not remember the third, eventually admitting he forgot and saying, “Oops.”

Baylor is a Baptist college. With that comes a target on the university’s back at which bloggers and anonymous commenters can throw cheap shots. When inaccurate reporting leads to slandering of the Baylor name, however, the attacks can no longer be written off as members of a hungry media grabbing at air in hopes it is their next meal ticket.