Mel Gibson- Apparently Danny Glover still talks to him. I don't know if I'd like him personally, but no denying his film-making prowess. He's probably more hated than Polanski and, in my personal opinion, saying fucked up stuff when drunk and even being a bigot isn't as bad as drugging a 13-year-old and ass raping her.
Lance Armstrong- "Oh he cheated." Oh when his teammates came clean about their cheating by exposing him, he still denied it." "Oh the cycling world knows he was cheating because they were all on the same stuff." You know what, though, none of those other guys on all the stuff that they were taking could keep up with the guy with one nut left after fighting cancer. And I didn't see any of them raising a half billion dollars for cancer research.
Everybody who played baseball in the 1990s- See above. If you can go down to your local gym and put a uniform on the biggest juicehead in the place, he's not hitting 700 home runs.
Richard Nixon- Yup. The grandaddy of all hater bait. Ugly, paranoid with a martyr complex and terminally unhip. No more crooked than any other politician of his or any other era. Opened up trade with China, Anti Ballistic Missle Treaty with Soviets, pulled the plug on Vietnam, supported the ERA, oversaw the widespread racial integration of public schools, formed the EPA, OSHA, the Center for National Interest and the Clean Air Act. Haters gone hate.