Groan-inducing.

Via Newsbusters:

SHARPTON: Joe, let me start with you. Why won’t Rush Limbaugh admit to the power he has in riling up the right-wing base?

JOE MADISON, TALK RADIO HOST: I don’t know the answer to that because, one, he’s well paid. I mean, that’s, let’s start right there. He is well paid to do this. And the sad thing is, you know, it’s, when you’re a general manager or you are a program director or you’re an owner, you know what he’s saying is not true. Matter of fact, listen to two things he said here. One, he said, they don’t, you won’t believe the lies we’re telling. He actually said that just a few seconds ago. He said we’re lying.

And then Sherman used this term “thug.” And it just dawned on me what he was really calling President Obama, and we just had a football player who said that’s a whole, that’s a euphemism for another word. But let’s be honest.

SHARPTON: He said it’s an acceptable way of using another term.

MADISON: And, remember, America, remember this, the first thing out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth after the first election of President Obama was “I hope he fails.” I have never, never heard a personality, a broadcaster ever say after an election that I hope a duly elected President of the United States fails because…

SHARPTON: And never back up off of that, Bill.