Opinion: The man-child Bill Maher is at it again with yet another joke on his tacky HBO show many people are calling racist … but this time he said it right to a black congressman’s face.

It’s okay his friends may say, because the black man is an elected Republican and Bill Maher is a dedicated leftist pandering Hollywood hack.

According to TMZ, Bill was interviewing Rep. Will Hurd from Texas during the one-on-one segment of ‘Real Time’ Friday night when he challenged Hurd to explain why he’s a member of the Republican Party … especially since he came from the CIA. Hurd replied, “I was in the CIA for almost a decade. I was the dude in the back alleys at 4 o’clock in the morning collecting intelligence on threats to the homeland,” … to which Maher commented, “That’s where they’d collect them, huh?”

It got some laughs, but then Bill added … “Wow, by the Popeyes chicken.” TMZ reports that neither the audience nor Hurd seemed to really react to the comment, but it’s getting a lot of backlash online. Of course, this isn’t a first for Maher — in June 2017 he dropped the n-word on his show while making a joke … and later apologized.

So far, no sorry from Bill for this joke.

To view the clip from TMZ click here. 

The Daily Beast notes the 2017 ignorant racist bit when Maher popped off during a sit-down interview with Republican Senator Ben Sasse.  Maher responded to a challenge by the Nebraska congressman “We’d love to have you work in the fields with us.”

Maher answered, “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house n—er.”