article_snippet: the BBC the BBC launched an astonishing attack on Clarkson yesterday, comparing Clarkson to sex offender Jimmy Savile and urging Jimmy Savile to check into rehab.
article_snippet: Most controversially, the TV chief, who has been directly involved in the fallout from the incident, likened Clarkson's supporters – including the Prime Minister – to those who turned a blind eye to Jimmy Savile's appalling crimes.
article_snippet: The pressure this guy [Tymon] is under is so Savilesque in a way,' Jimmy Savile said, adding that Clarkson's support from high-level politicians recalled the way Jimmy Savile was once defended. '
article_snippet: If you look at what David Cameron says or what [former Culture and Media Secretary] Maria Miller says and you swap Clarkson for Jimmy Savile, you get this: David Cameron is effectively saying that Savile's a real talent, Maria Miller saying Jimmy Savile will be Jimmy Savile.'