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Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks at the NRA annual meeting Friday. Wayne LaPierre: Media one of 'greatest threats'

National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said Friday that media bias is one of the gravest threats facing the country.

Kicking off his group’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, LaPierre accused the media of covering up problems with Solyndra, Fast and Furious and Obamacare.

“Rather than expose government dishonesty and scandal, the media elites whitewash it all,” he said. “Move on, they tell us, there’s nothing to see here … One of America’s greatest threats is a national news media that fails to provide a level playing field in this country for the truth.”

“We will never submit or surrender to the national media, I promise you that,” he added. “They still call themselves journalists. They’ve never been honest about the NRA. They hate us just for saying out loud and sticking up for what we believe in our hearts. They try to ridicule us into oblivion or shame us into submission. But their moral indignation should be directed right into their own makeup mirrors. The media’s intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination.”

LaPierre also mocked interviews that Mike Bloomberg gave this month to the New York Times and NBC’s “Today” show.

“You talk about being in cahoots together,” he said.