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All this talk of Emmy snubs has overshadowed the biggest snub, numerically speaking: Real Time host and professional Ann Coulter wrangler Bill Maher.

The man has been nominated a staggering 21 times for his late night talk shows and stand-up comedy specials and never won a single award, as many as soap star Suan Lucci's 21 (although she finally did snag one).

That number will probably keep growing since his show faces some stiff competition for a little gold statue. And despite my (and your) personal approvals and disagreements with the man's various opinions and philosophies, it's time he got something for his work.

Oh boy, I can already hear the fast and furious fingers of fury from the peanut gallery typing out angry, fiery, spittle flinging comments as I write this. Before you take up the torches and the pitchforks, hear me out.

Yes, the man can be polarizing in his opinions and does display a repugnance for very controversial things such as the institution of marriage and the legalization of drugs. His personal opinions, however, should not reflect the work he does for television. Politics has no place at the Emmys. Yeah, I chuckled a bit when I read that too.

He has also brought a seriousness and sincerity to late night television, long before groundbreakers such as The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, which was just a smarmy satire-less vehicle for TV pretty boy Craig Ferguson Kilborn to throw away when his ego took the wheel to his brain. He proved with his increasingly controversial shows that there is a place for about something more serious than stars' morning routines and the clip from their latest movie that they brought with them.

His hosting style alone is award-worthy since he regularly gives opposing sides their time in the spotlight before calling them on what he believes to be their BS. Sometimes, he does lay on his sincerity a little too thick when he's interviewing someone he agrees 100 percent with, but he does allow for a healthy debate that occasionally turns into mangled decibels of undecipherable gibberish. It's also clever and intentionally funny. That's more than what can be said for most of cable TV news, which is funny but more of in a milk-tanker-crashing-into-an-orphanage kind of way.