Even After Report, Blunt said Ferrell "Doing a Very Good Job"

Ah, memories.

In an interview with MissouriNet conducted at the end of August 2006 --some three months after the Highway Patrol sent him its investigative report on Agriculture Director Fred Ferrell's sexual harassment activities-- Governor Matt Blunt personally defended Ferrell. Contrary to his current claims, Blunt sounded not at all appalled with Ferrell's history of sexual harassment. To listen to the interview again, Blunt sounded downright proud of the man:

"Fred Ferrell continues to serve as the Director of Agriculture. I think he's doing a very good job." --quotation at 0:36 into the Brent Martin interview

But the Blunt administration would have us believe that the governor was all torn up after he learned about the deplorable sexual harassment perpetrated by Fred Ferrell against employees of the Department of Agriculture. This was how an administration flack spun it in Virginia Young's Sunday Post-Dispatch story:

Jessica Robinson, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Friday that Blunt “was appalled to learn about this inappropriate behavior and responded immediately.”

Blunt was so appalled that he let the man keep his job and spoke on the record to the media about what a "good job" he thought Ferrell was doing.

Not only does Governor Blunt think its okay to have a sexual harasser running a state department, he also thinks the people of Missouri are too stupid to recognize when he's telling them plainly transparent lies. As this story yet again illustrates, the Governor and his crew are not just morally deficient but fundamentally dishonest as well.