What was the real reason Juan Williams got fired? Payback for being a free thinker?

I didn't think of this the other day. But it could be the real reason for Juan Williams firing. I was assuming it was because he had been on FOX and they couldn't allow FOX look as if it was a balanced presenter of the news, now could they? But this Clarence Thomas angle makes even more sense.

Yep, pay back for breaking the liberal mold, for his sins committed all the way back to 1991. Take a gander at this quote from Howard Kurtz on the Daily Beast

Williams has always occupied an uneasy ground as an African-American who sometimes criticizes blacks, and a liberal who isn’t far left enough for some liberals. When he was a Washington Post columnist in 1991, he took immense heat from his “side” for defending Clarence Thomas against Anita Hill’s charges—a story that has catapulted back into the news this week with Thomas’ wife Ginni asking Hill for an apology.

How dare an African-American man think for himself? White liberal elites are suppose to do that for him....

I don't agree with him 99 percent of the time, but I have always assumed Juan Williams to be honest to others about what he thinks, despite having personal doubts that liberals have the capability to be honest with themselves.