Reply #18: So did I. Met her and Amy Goodman while manning phones for a pledge drive...

[JHB]

...circa '91. Samuels was on BAI in between stints on WABC (the NYC home of Limbaugh, Hannity, Curtis Sliwa, and the other RW blabbers) as a token liberal, and (IMO) an easily-dismissable one.

The RWers on ABC would constantly pound national politics, while Samuels would veer into local chit-chat, like a flea market she went to over the weekend. There's a place for that, but when you're representing the "liberal" view, it makes liberals look flighty and scatterbrained (which, also IMO, was one of the reasons she kept getting work there).

But that was ages ago. I don't think I've heard her in nearly 15 years.