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> it hasn't been all over the news for being stricter in searching people of particular ethnicity

This is not the policy of the TSA. The only people who advocate such a policy are racists like Clarkson.

>can you blame Clarkson for being in character on it's own satirical column?

It's not a satirical column. If you think that Clarkson is doing a Colbert-like performance, you've just got the wrong end of the stick.

>moreover if the main smoking gun is a quote by Clarkson himself I'm not really impressed,

What kind of backwards logic is this? Clarkson's own words are (obviously) the most reliable source of information regarding his beliefs.