Conservatives need reminding that just because purported comedian Bill Maher gets it right once in a while, like a broken clock, about Islam, he's no friend of the right.

Newsbusters reports that on Friday's Real Time show on HBO, Maher was a firehose of unfunny Republican-hating, demonizing newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch as a "right-wing asshole," a "Scalia clone," and someone who "has never shown any empathy toward a human being." Hilarious!

Right out of the gate, in his monologue, Maher offered up red meat to his hateful audience: "Today is a day Republicans are happy. They got their two favorite things -- a right-wing asshole on the Supreme Court and Trump finally blowing some shit up."

Then he went on to play the worn-out race card, which still works for his brainless audience:

In 2013, 98 Republicans signed a letter saying bombing Syria in response to a chemical attack was unconstitutional without congressional authorization. But this is different because Obama was President then. That would have involved bombing while black, and you can't -- can't do that.

... and to toss out the tired old leftist saw that Republicans only care about babies if they are in the womb or in Syria:

Interesting side note to this: No change in the Trump policy on Syrian refugees coming here. Republicans feel about Syrians in Syria the same way they feel about the fetus in the womb. When it's a beautiful baby in Syria, it's a sacred, precious gift from God. Once it leaves, you're on your own. 

By that reasoning, then, the left must not care about babies at all.

"And, you know, speaking of protecting fetuses," he continued, "the Republican Senate has confirmed Scalia clone Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court -- proving that in America cheating still works, ladies and gentleman. Cheating still works."

For a leftist to make accusations of "cheating" is the height of hypocrisy, but that's par for the leftist course.

This was the same Maher, Newsbusters points out, who joked and laughed on his show about former Justice Antonin Scalia's death.

During the show's regular panel discussion, Maher hammered home his theme of Republican heartlessness, asserting that Gorsuch "has never shown any empathy toward a human being" and wishing women, "good luck with your back alley abortion."

To get a regular TV gig as a comedian these days, you don't have to be funny -- just openly and profanely hateful of conservatives.