Yesterday, the internet’s favorite, uh, Matt Drudge, offered this “exclusive:”

Top Hollywood activists and intellectuals are planning to gather this week in Beverly Hills for an event billed as ‘Hate Bush,’ the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!

Today, the NY Daily News’ Lloyd Grove reports:

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.”

[snip]

“I don’t hate Bush,” she [Laurie David] said. “I hate his administration’s policies – especially what they have done concerning the environment. But for all I know, he is personally a lovely man.”

Late yesterday, after Drudge forwarded me the smoking E-mail with the “Hate Bush” subject line, I sent an E-mail to the author, and a man phoned me to identify himself as the culprit.

[snip]

Drudge was unapologetic.

“Welcome to the wonderful world of the Internet,” he told me. As for anti-Semitic reaction, “Speaking as a Jew myself, I think Laurie David is trying to equate the Drudge Report with Jew haters. I know what she’s doing. I also think that the Bush-hating organizers of this event need to get better organized.”

Is it just us, or is Matt Drudge a lying piece of shit scum? Just askin’!

Grove link from No More Mister Nice Blog, a most excellent blog you should be reading every day.