Maher is Mr. White Liberal when it comes to black-white racialissues. But he's also a hard-core Zionist. The central importance of Israel and its influence over the U.S. government and media is never mentioned on Maher's show despite all the talk about the Iraq occupation and U.S. foreign policy in general.Thelong-time unmentionable topic of theIsrael Lobby, thanks to Jimmy Carter, profs Walt and Mearsheimer, and others, isn't as taboo as it used to be, but it still is on Real Time.
Also,Maher constantly bashes Christianity and Islam, but Judaism always gets a pass. Maher likes to mention how he was brought up Catholic, but he's also half-Jewish, which is hardly something that can be hidden given his looks and beliefs.
The other side of the coin is that his is one of the few shows where the Bush administration and (some of) its enablers are regularly mocked and criticized, sometimes quite strongly. But it's criticism and observations that always come from what's generally referred to as the far left.White people as alwaysare unrepresented.