It's not a response to the one article, it's an opinion borne of years of the fool, you could, for instance, pop over to the Motoring forum and find my opinion of Top Gear. Whilst I admit I find some of his musings on the French, the Germans, and most particularly the States, entertaining, it does not detract from a long burning and overwhelming desire to see his smug visage ground into the dust.
The man is a bufoon; he was before this article was written, and he continues to be so.