Juan Williams Recaps How He Got Fired From NPR… And The Note He Got After

We’ve covered (over-covered?) the Juan Williams saga since last week, but here’s one more, maybe final, chapter.

On FBN’s Follow The Money, the show he appeared on last week right before he was fired by NPR, he discussed the circumstances since it all went down.

Eric Bolling introduced the discussion by calling it Williams’ “big week.” “I would never describe it as a big week, but let me say this, it’s interesting to me,” said Williams. “I got off this set, and there was a call, please call the boss. So I called the boss back and it was, ‘you’re a bigot.'”

“She called you a bigot?” asked Alan Colmes, also on set. Williams said she didn’t, but that it was “the implication.”

Later, Colmes asked “did they ever apologize to you directly?” Said Williams:

She sent me a note, and said, ‘please call me at this number, I’m in and out, make arrangements,’ and I sent her back a note and said, ‘you know what, you wouldn’t talk to me after you fired me, you wouldn’t apologize, you said I needed a psychiatrist. What am I supposed to talk to you about now?’

Not what you’d call a clean break. But after the Restoring Sanity rally, the NPR story likely gets pushed to the backburner, for good. Here’s the clip (via Johnny Dollar):

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