"The Passion of the anti-Semite"

I'm usually pretty cold to celebrity spew masquerading as news, but this flap over Mel Gibson and his alleged anti-Semitic remarks has me interested. The "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon" star was pulled over for drunken driving recently in Malibu, and according to leaked reports, railed at Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, blaming Jews for "all the wars in the world," among other slurs.

There are further allegations that the LA Sheriff's Department sanitized its report of the incident and tried to downplay the actor's behavior. The department now says it will investigate the matter.

Gibson's been accused of anti-Semitism before, most famously in the context of his recent hit movie about the life of Jesus Christ.

There is now a lot of speculation about whether this is a catastrophic blow to Gibson's career. My guess is, no it isn't. Anti-Semitism runs so deep in this world, and the attention span of Americans is so fleeting, that I doubt Gibson will suffer much at all from this episode.