The TMZ.com website, which broke the news of actor Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic rampage on being arrested for drunk driving, has conducted a poll that shows more people support Gibson than disapprove of his reprehensible actions.

The poll of 216,037 TMZ readers finds:

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Still love Mel                      44%
Am disappointed                37%
Hate his guts                       18%

These results on how the sheriff’s department handled the incident:

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Did the right thing               40%
Should be nailed
    to the wall                        34%
Gave Mel too much
    ‘celebrity justice’               26%

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