IMO, there michaer. Both Dennis Miller and Bill Maher are reactionary jerks. Both have made decisions to be opporunists, and make television careers out of right wing political demagoguery. In the case of Dennis Miller, he did a 180 politically from his Saturday Night Live days.

People (conveniently, perhaps) forget just how reactionary and conservative Bill Maher was on his show prior to 9/11. He ironically became the first poster child in the censorship and civil liberties wars in the post-9/11 world of US politics, is all. He was never a political progressive, or even a Democratic liberal. Just an opportunist who saw a chance to make some bucks by trying to do in television what Rush Limbaugh, et al did in radio.