“Real Time” host Bill Maher questioned the wisdom of the liberal media’s ongoing avoidance of the escalating controversies surrounding Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

“There’s a lot of scuttlebutt in the news this week about Doug,” Maher said in a panel discussion on Friday’s “Overtime” online segment of his HBO show.

“If people don’t know what’s going on, the Daily Mail is reporting that three women [Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend] talked to contemporaneously, which has been the standard very often in these cases, that she said back in, I think, 2011 or something, they were at the Cannes Film Festival. He slapped her. He thought she was flirting with the valet,” Maher said.

“He knocked up the nanny, right? That’s confirmed,” conservative radio host Buck Sexton added.

“That’s confirmed. He definitely knocked up the nanny,” Maher responded with a chuckle. “What I’m saying is, if this becomes more credible- and we don’t know yet. I mean, a lot of the conservative outlets still aren’t reporting it, so I wouldn’t go after anybody for not reporting it yet because these things have to be checked out. But if it becomes more credible, certainly on the level of Brett Kavanaugh, which was that kind of thing was reported by everybody pretty quickly. Does the liberal media keep ignoring it?”

“Yes, they will. Absolutely,” Sexton answered. 

“Wouldn’t that make it look worse?” Maher then asked. 

CNN anchor Laura Coates responded by saying it is “prudent” for the media to be “cautious” about such serious allegations like the ones facing Emhoff “until you have the supporting details,” adding that it’s “fair” to look into the claims, though her network and most others did not afford Kavanaugh the same caution and courtesy.

“What I don’t think is fair is to, and I’m consistent on this on all accounts, is to tar and feather without more,” Coates said. “I think you have to give information to people, and you have to actually do your homework and background. I don’t think by not reporting- and again, I’m not familiar with all of the allegations that are involved here, but I think it is appropriate to investigate as it is appropriate to be cautious before you simply put something into the ether that has those substantiation.”

Tim Alberta, a staff writer for the far-left outlet The Atlantic, called the Emhoff controversy “a problem” for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign that is “going to have to deal with now.”

“Regardless of what’s confirmed or not confirmed, I think that there is now a little bit of blood in the water. The nanny thing was the first drop. And now there’s some more,” Alberta said. “And it’s not gonna be long now. I can guarantee you that there are investigative teams at The Times and The Post and elsewhere that are looking into it.”

Emhoff confirmed he had an extramarital affair with the family nanny and got her pregnant, which resulted in the ending of his marriage to his first wife, Kerstin Emhoff.

The Daily Mail subsequently published reports detailing serious allegations against him, including claims that he “forcefully slapped” his then-girlfriend in 2012 and engaged in “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” behavior while leading the LA law firm Venable from 2006 to 2017.