Jeremy Clarkson savages BBC over LA fire reporting as he spots ‘annoying’ habit: ‘Give it a rest’
Jeremy Clarkson has taken a fresh swipe at the BBC following its reporting on the devastating Los Angeles fires which ravaged the city this month.
In particular, the former Top Gear star took issue with a reporter referring to the USA as a “capitalist” country.
In his most recent column for The Sun, the 64-year-old ordered the BBC correspondent to “give it a rest”.
Under the subhead “Give it a rest Emma,” the Clarkson’s Farm star pointed out: “The BBC’s very busy Los Angeles correspondent, Emma Vardy, went on Radio 4 this week to say that some rich people whose homes were threatened by the recent blazes used private fire brigades to keep the flames at bay.
“She explained this may sound odd to people in the UK but America is a capitalist country.
“Er, I know it annoys Starmer and Reeves and quite a few people at the BBC but Britain is also a capitalist country.”
Clarkson went on to argue: “It’s why we have private medicine and private schools, and it’s why some streets in affluent neighbourhoods now have private security patrols.
“Of course, all these things could be abolished. We could put the state in charge of everything.
“And then it’d be like North Korea. There’d be no privilege.”
The Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host, who has been famously critical of the BBC for years, concluded simply: “And everyone would be equally miserable.”
Elsewhere in his column, the presenter sung the praises of Paramount+ series, Landman.
“It’s about an oil man in Texas who has to deal with marauding drug cartels, a mad wife, a son who keeps being beaten up and a pretty daughter who constantly swans around in her underwear,” Clarkson described the series.
He went on to add that the series is “joyously unwoke”.
It’s not the first time Clarkson has shared his take regarding the LA wildfires, which, among thousands of others, have impacted many A-List celebrities.
This sparked a social media narrative that the losses aren’t as tragic due to the fact the victims are wealthy – something Clarkson argued against last week.
Making a stand for the celebrities’ losses, Clarkson wrote in last week’s Sun column: “I know there are social media socialists saying, ‘They’re rich so it doesn’t matter’ But that’s nonsense.
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“It doesn’t matter how much money you have, it always hurts to lose your photograph albums and your pets and your lifetime collection of fridge magnets.
“My heart, and I really mean this, goes out to everyone affected,” he emphasised.