By Alex Hammer,Editor

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Bill Maher is being slammed for defending Jimmy Kimmel’s comments on Charlie Kirk with a comparison to those made about homeless, mentally-ill people by a Fox News host after ignoring a crucial difference between the two.

Kimmel was suspended for remarks he made about the slain conservative activist during his show on Monday.

His comments came a day after Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade faced a backlash for suggesting the best way to deal with violent homeless people is ‘lethal injection’.

Kilmeade made the remarks during a segment on the state of the country following the murder of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on Sunday’s Fox & Friends.

Maher drew a link between the two during Friday’s episode of Real Time, noting it was interesting that the ‘angel of death’ passed over Kilmeade, while Kimmel was yanked from the air.

He failed to note how Kilmeade was forced to apologize on-air Wednesday after four days of fierce backlash, while Kimmel has remained silent.

Before being met with pushback, Maher made his case to former Senator Joe Manchin and MSNBC contributor Alex Wagner.

‘I’ll tell you a journalist who’s on TV who did not get fired. He said something that you might think is controversial, but he’s still there. Brian Kilmeade – he’s on Fox News. This is the the morning show where they usually are wishing happy birthday to 100-year-olds.

‘They were talking about their time at the homeless. His co-host says, a lot of them don’t want to take the programs to get help,’ Maher continued.

‘Brian says, “or just kill them”… and this is apparently not controversial.’ The audience groaned then upon rearing the rehash of Kilmeade’s comments.

‘Well, I dare say, we live in a moment when maligning, insulting, or otherwise calling for the death of the poor, the weakest, people of color, isn’t exactly punished by, I don’t know, Fox News,’ Wagner at this point chimed in.

Maher clarified that this was something ‘new’ from the station, which is known for its conservative-friendly content, before making his ‘angel of death’ observations.

Onlookers online were quick to point out the holes in the HBO host’s analysis.

‘He was talking about serial, violent, homeless, criminals, like the one who stabbed to death that poor girl on the train. He also apologized right away for the insensitive comments. that is the difference,’ one X user wrote.

‘Brian apologized… Kimmel???’ another added.

The ABC host’s show was pulled ‘indefinitely’ Wednesday over comments delivered on-air Monday night that panned ‘the MAGA gang’ for trying to portray the suspect in Kirk’s assassination ‘as anything other than one of them’ the weekend before.

Maher, however, also missed that Kilmeade’s comments came on cable in contrast to Kimmel’s, which were offered on public airwaves.

As such, they caught the attention of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday that ABC was at risk of losing its broadcast license because of Kimmel’s comments.

Within hours, more than a dozen ABC affiliates announced it would not be airing Kimmel’s show for the foreseeable future.

Disney and ABC then made the call to pull the show from circulation.

A meeting between Disney and Kimmel on Thursday designed to find a way to get the show back on the air reportedly ended without resolution.

An insider told the Wall Street Journal that Disney – ABC’s parent company – is monitoring the situation and sees a path forward for a Kimmel return ‘in the next several days’.