Maury Brown publishes an interview with Steve Lyons about his firing from Fox.

Bizball: Do you think it's a situation where they were looking for an excuse?

Lyons: You know, it's certainly possible, but I would hate to make that assumption only because I think that if I did, I'd be no better than what they did. I can only take at face value that they fired me for the press releases they put out - as far as I know - I didn't really see it. That I was fired for having made a racially insensitive comment. They didn't say anything about anything else I did. They didn't say anything about any past problems that they had with me. So, I can only take that at face value. If I said, "Hey, maybe they were looking for something," then that means I'm inferring something that they didn't say, exactly the same way that they did to me, and the reason I got fired.