Nice people:

Hollywood liberal Laurie David, wife of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Seinfeld" creator Larry David, found herself fielding abusive faxes and other messages yesterday after cybergossip Matt Drudge scorched her for holding a high-level strategy session in Beverly Hills tonight on how Democrats might defeat President Bush.

Drudge claimed on his Web site - erroneously, I've concluded - that Laurie David titled an E-mail about the event at the Beverly Hilton, to be co-hosted by the likes of superagent Ari Emanuel and "Seinfeld" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "with the bold heading: 'Hate Bush 12/2 - Event.'"

In response, David told me yesterday, she was subjected to a barrage "of ugly messages," including this one, from an Akron, Ohio, man who somehow obtained her private fax number:

"Dear Laurie David: Thanks for revealing how Compassionate Liberals such as yourself would initiate a Hate Bush campaign. And some wonder why there is increasing anti-Semitism. I'm not."...

That's from Lloyd Grove's gossip column in the New York Daily News. Grove actually dug around and says he found a recipient who retitled the e-mail.

Meanwhile, the gossip page of the New York Post still blames Laurie David for using the word "hate." Want to bet the Post never backs away from that conclusion?