You can’t stay mad at Mel Gibson for long

Americans are a forgiving people, at least when it comes to movie stars. So we’ve learned in the aftermath of Mel Gibson’s recent drinking/ driving/ anti-Semitizing episode. In a CNN poll (summarized by PollingReport.com), just 7 percent of adults said they’ve ceased to be fans of Gibson due to this incident, while 58 percent remain fans. (Most of the rest weren’t fans in the first place.) Meanwhile, a Rasmussen Reports survey finds 52 percent of adults saying they regard Gibson’s apologies as “sincere”—nearly double the 27 percent who view them as insincere.