Judge Stefany Miley (Ret.) and Sheriff Joe Lombardo — possibly the next Governor of the state of Nevada

When you can’t come up with hard evidence, you do the next best thing, right, Steve Sanson? You report on rumors and innuendo.

We’re not accusing you of this idly. You actually admit it.

Here’s what you wrote in a post on your Veterans in Politics website on December 2, 2020:

“Clark County elections brouhaha teaches us that FACTS can be misleading, while RUMORS, true or false, are often revealing. Our VIPI I-Team has been pounding the streets to reveal clues! Rumor around the campfire is that Stefany Miley was asked NOT to return! OMG!”

We didn’t touch that above paragraph at all. We ran it verbatim. That’s exactly how it appeared on the VIP website.

Sanson openly writes that,

“FACTS can be misleading … “

And follows that up by writing that

“RUMORS, true or false, are often revealing.”

And then he writes,

“Our VIPI I-Team has been pounding the streets to reveal clues!”

Are you kidding us? This is about as sophomoric and journalistically unprofessional as it gets. How can you or your website possibly be taken seriously?

There’s a thing in journalism — actually in writing in general — known as a “fog index.” It’s an index that estimates the level of education a person needs to understand what he or she is reading. For instance, a fog index of 12 requires the reading level of a United States high school senior (around 18 years old) — in other words, a 12th-grader.

We think Sanson has broken the fog index with that paragraph above. On the one hand, it’s so simplistic that a fog index of about 5 feels about right to us. Although you did use that big word, not very often used, “brouhaha;” so maybe we’d have to bump that fog index up a little more. On the other hand, it’s so confusing — facts mislead and rumors, true or false, are revealing. Huh? What journalism school did you come out of? Oh, wait. You didn’t go through J-school. That may explain it.

In any event, yet another slanderous piece of writing and publishing from Steve Sanson and VIP.

To paraphrase a famous line from former President Ronald Reagan: “Mr. Sanson, tear down those posts.”

Seriously. You should remove them. Could wind up being very problematic for you.