She reminds me of the girl in school who did not fit in anywhere and carried a very large chip on her shoulder. It is obvious from the roles she takes that she always plays the "smarter, deeper" chick to the prettier more popular one.
So now she slaps on a pair of glasses to apply the intellectual facade Hollywood loves. This takes her stereotyped role of "smart, deeper" chick into real life politics.
Unfortunately her invective will never win anyone over because we see beneath the role to the bitterness that motivates her. She seethes with hatred.
She and the Hollywood Left she represents do not have the moral courage it takes to own up to their own miscalculations and over the top rhetoric regarding the war - that is what led to their spiraling downfall.
Very astute analysis. In a way, I think it's kind of sad what's happened to Janeane. Once upon a time, she showed some comedic spark and was almost cute when you scrubbed her up a bit. But she seemed to be so filled with anger and self-loathing that she either subconsciously or deliberately trashed her own looks and career, and made it a point of pride to appear on national television looking ugly, frumpy, overweight and angry.
She started attacking any comedian she didn't think was funny in the "correct" way, as well as audiences who dared to like comics she hated (I remember seeing her on Letterman attacking Ray Stevens for no apparent reason, and saying that she wouldn't want to have anyone who thought he was funny as a fan of hers -- hey, no problem, Janeane. You could tell Letterman was appalled.) This seems to be a prevailing attitude among a certain subset of bitter, leftist, "hip" "comedians" like David Cross, who think they are the only funny people in the world, when in fact, they are so painfully unfunny, they couldn't raise a chuckle from a toddler on laughing gas.
Now, all that leftist self-hatred has so filled Janeane that she can't contain it within herself anymore and has started spewing it in every direction. No wonder she won't condemn Saddam Hussein: they're kindred spirits. These days, seeing her on TV is like watching someone crash and burn in slow motion. God knows she doesn't need to be on CNN five times a week. She needs to be in psychiatric therapy five times a week. Maybe she could finally rid herself of some of her demons instead of inflicting them on the rest of us.