Of course we’re all part of the machine that helps Clarkson Win either way…
If he gets us lefty, handwringers types in a froth over some stupid, Oafish and intentionally offensive comment or article, it gets all those comments on the bottom of the piece, FB and Twitter users get wound up and start arguing amongst themselves, maybe he even has to do a pretend apology… all the time the amount of coverage of Jeremy Clarkson clocks up (and mentions of an upcoming series of top gear).
This all of course scores him points with the fans, and reminds them to tune in to watch the man-child piss about in a car they can’t afford, tell them how shite it is and then spout a few more keywords so he can chime with their collective world view (again)…
Of course if he didn’t play the part, the world would long ago have forgotten him and Top Gear, its a cycle of dependence, Offensive, Jokey, waffle = free publicity = good ratings = another series of Top Gear, and spin off crap (The other two suckle at his metaphorical “Teat” too) and so the cycle continues…
Of course none of it would work if we just paid him NO attention, I mean properly; No comments on the tail of his Web articles, not a single Tweet or FB comments, no outraged emails to the Beeb or multi-page forum threads on how awful he is (The Ironing!), Don’t watch his programs, just ignore the bugger, a couple of years of pretending you’d no idea or interest in Jeremy Clarkson, and he’d be gone from the public eye, easy