Despite being hated by many of the callers, and even some of the hosts at WABC, Samuels street-wise attitude and quick wit enabled her to manage through it all. She was fired for a brief time when, while being paired up with conservative veteran talker Barry Farber, she lost her cool and called for the assassination of then-president George H.W. Bush...
Samuels was then fired a third time from WABC on August 22, 2002. Although the station claimed budget cuts were the reason for her canning, many believed the real motive was to silence her progressive voice during the build-up to the the War in Iraq. At the time, she was on only once a week, on Saturday mornings.
The Sirius Satellite Radio network quickly hired Samuels in 2003, and she had been broadcasting from there ever since. Despite being on the Sirius Left channel, Samuels took no favorites and bashed Democrats when she saw fit, including dropping a c-bomb on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/12/25/lynn-samuels-1942-2011/
I remember Rush Limbaugh saying that she was a very nice person when he started at WABC. She went out of her way to make him feel welcome at the station. As a person, never heard anyone saying anything but nice things.