Have you read the original article? Has he actually lost the money permanently? The secondary reporting isn't very clear on this point.
Posted by Florian Weimer at January 9, 2008 01:47 PM> Jeremy Clarkson is a comedian
Jezza is God's Gift to Journalism.
I use the term "Journalism" here loosely, but so do most "Journalists" these days, as their comedy is entirely accidental, pretty much like their ability to deliver actual information to their customers. (By "customers", I mean the people who actually pay (or transfer-pay) for their "content", or "media", or whatever the "media analysts" call it, not the politicians they bark on command for.)
I have it on good authority -- a talk with the Creator Himself (Huckabee can do it, why can't I?) -- that Hunter S. Thompson killed himself because he watched Jeremey Clarkson *once*, and realized he could *never*, *never* in his whole *life*, have *ever* been worthy enough to wash Jezza's *feet* (after a day of, say, playing crane-conkers with various insufficiently-powered, um, Eurasian, automobiles), much less write a single word that would hold up in the Positively Blinding Light of The Genius That Is Jeremey Clarkson.
Cheers,
RAH
Clinton/McCain '08 (Why not? Not a hair's breadth between them, and they seem to be winning primaries together anyway...)