What's the deal with Lynn Samuels?

[DeaconBlues]

I have Sirius radio and I sometimes catch her radio show on the Talkleft station while I'm driving. Her popularity among progressives is a mystery to me since it seems she spends most of her time reading from tabloid magazines. The little time she does spend on politics is usually devoted to trashing other leftie media sources (like Randi Rhodes). And her voice is like nails on a chalkboard.

Seriously, I would like to know other DUers feelings about her. Why is she on the air?

[boobooday]

1. She used to be pretty funny

A few years back I used to listen to her on the web. Then I tuned her in a few times via sirius, and she was just rambling. She sounds bitter.

[DeaconBlues]

5. I'm not the paranoid type, and I like a streak of independence

but when I listen to her I can't help thinking "troll." For example, the little time she spent on politics when I listened to her the other day, she talked about Chelsea Clinton "cocaine problem" and how Randi Rhodes was a liar for saying the Homeland Security pedophile had kiddie porn on an office computer when it was actually adult porn. She's a mystery to me.

[boobooday]

11. Perhaps Rush is sharing his Oxycontin . . .

That's what she sounded like to me the last time I heard her. I remember that she pissed me off.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I did not know she was still on the air.

She used to be on BAI a long time ago.

[immoderate]

3. I know her.

Or I had some contact with her when I lived in New York. Mainly, she wants to be on the radio. That's it. There is not much depth there. Her main "quality" is persistence.

--IMM

[xultar]

4. Basically her show is about listening to an old lady across a kitchen

table. Sometimes she's funny. She hates Bush. Other than that it is just listening to an old lady ramble. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I don't.

[DeaconBlues]

6. I do have to admit that on rare occasions I do find her funny

Like once she spent a half hour speculating on the size of King Kong's penis, and if the reason why white men find Kong terrifying is because on an unconscious level it reminds them of their inadequacies in this area.

[stillcool]

7. Steely Dan?...

[DeaconBlues]

8. yep n/t

[stillcool]

9. can't get it out of my head... great song...

great memories....they call Alabama the Crimson tide....

[DeaconBlues]

10. even though I love the band, can't say I'm a Steely Dan expert

but there is something about that song, especially when I'm in a melancholy or introspective mood, that just speaks to me...

so I decided to steal it

[no_hypocrisy]

12. I really like her.

I can't get Sirius. She used to be at all hours at WABC after she left WBAI.

She made me laugh and I grew to like her voice. I visit her website everyday. She was "let go" from WABC in NYC when the PD purged the station of all non-fascists.

[Southsideirish]

13. She plays both sides, no thanks, Lynn. Only one side is correct and we

know which one that is.