You know - to guys like us - Jeremy Clarkson is very much like Pat Robertson. Both of these guys aren't terribly important, yet we love to pay attention and get really worked up when they make lunatic comments.

I'd also liken Jeremy to Ann Coulter in the sense that his career is predicated on being an obtuse firebrand. He's the original tabloid-motorjournalist who carries the pretensions of somebody worth listening to.