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Report Claims Video Shows Dem Rep. Conyers Reading Playboy on Plane

An article on the site TheMichiganView.com says video posted on YouTube shows Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) reading the porn magazine “Playboy” while on a coach flight to Washington in July.

From the article: (titled “Mr. Smut Goes to Washington”):

The video and pictures – first posted by ex-Detroit News reporter and New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie LeDuff on his Facebook page – were taken by an anonymous passenger seated two seats from Conyers … . Conyers – in his aisle seat – is shown flipping though pages showing two nude gal pals in the August issue of Playboy. And he also apparently reads Hefner’s product for the articles. The pages he lingers on appear to feature an article entitled “La Chatte” by Maureen Gibbon, on article exploring lesbian sex.

The video, below, is not clear, but the word “Playboy” seems to be visible on one of the pages. CONTENT WARNING: While the video is not high resolution, one may be able to make out parts of a nude woman:

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  • cindyk618
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:08pm

    Maybe if the health care bill had pictures of naked women after each paragraph Rep Conyers would have had more incentive to read it!

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    • Tennessee Veteran
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:21pm

      And his vote would not be related to the bill but the quality and quantity of girlie pictures.

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  • Doc Jon
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:03pm

    As much as I disagree with his politics and corruption, why is this newsworthy while concurrently our government is mandating naked scans and fondling? Who cares if her reads Playboy? It‘s nothing you wouldn’t already have seen at the airport!

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  • inmyhumbleopinion
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:02pm

    Isn’t he the same guy who said he got a kick outta people who say “read the bill”………..NOW I understand wh he didn’t have time for such trivialities!

    Pond scum on too many levels to list!

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  • Hill Country Patriot
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:00pm

    Who the hell looks at a Playboy (or any nudie mag of your choice) sitting next to someone on a plane? What a dumb-ass.

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  • Hoosier Daddy
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:56am

    What’s the big deal. The fossilized POS was probably just reminding himself what it used to look like.

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  • eteme
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:56am

    Looks staged…

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:55am

    Big. Friggin. Deal.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:54am

    Living in a free country (ha!) means that you’re allowed to read what you wish to read. We have more important matters at hand right now folks, than some guy reading a girlie magazine. Our nation is nearly in flames, I don’t have time to care about some guy reading a playboy.

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    • ItsallaboutJesus
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:17pm

      Yes,he is free to look at what he wants, but just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Especially on a crowded air plane. And if The Blaze informs me about something that reveals a persons (elected official) moral character, then yes, I do want them to report it. The man should have known better.

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    • Dstarr55
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 7:42am

      Ghost, it’s not about his right to read the magazine, it is the appropriateness of doing so. If I was sitting next to him it certainly would make me feel uncomfortable. His decision to read that on a plane makes me question his lack of judgment which I think is a problem with most of our congressional leaders. There is this mindset of thinking only of yourself instead of others – Conyers was only thinking of his right to read the magazine and not how it might impact those around him.

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  • mast_elec929
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:54am

    We should put all legislation in Playboy magazines, then maybe they would “read the bill”.

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    • Hoosier Daddy
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:00pm

      Nope. You’d have to tattoo it on the naked ladies.

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    • knotaclu
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:12pm

      and, you wouldnt need the lawyers there to explain what it all means…Good one….

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:52am

    Although I don’t condone reading these rags. But I do guess its better than reading Playgirl. I am pretty sure that there are a lot better books or magazines that he could be reading. I would suggest one book that is a must read. It’s called the Bible.

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  • lostandfound65
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:51am

    Not that this is a good thing, but there are way more important things to worry about, like North Korea. The guy is a loser, but I don’t think this is something that we need to get all apoplectic about.

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  • poozak
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:51am

    This may be the first honest act this Representative has accomplished during the time I have been watching. The magazine is pretty tame stuff compared to the real crimes put over by some of the crooks this guy works with in Congress. God help us all.

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  • Vickie Dhaene
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:50am

    Lol

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  • Slap Shot
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:49am

    Big Time LOSER.

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:48am

    If Mr. Conyers were totally chaste, which is politics be anymore acceptable? http://commonsense21c.com/

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:47am

    Wait a second, I am a Christian and I detest pornography but…Why is this even news? Come on Blaze, for real? The dude read a playboy! Ooooh! Stop the freakin’ press!

    I don‘t give a rat’s you know what if my elected official looks at a playboy. I do not care if Obama has a 20 year collection of hustler. The only impact that has on me whatsoever is if they claimed to be a Christian, then I would feel bad for them having to deal with their sin. If they do not believe it is sin? Then they certainly have the right to it. More power to them!

    Come on Blaze, the whole bloody world is coming apart at the seams and this is what you are wasting bandwidth on?

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:33pm

      If you want Hard News go to MSNBC . I heat they have a roster of Journalists, dedicated to exposing the truth. Ed, Rackel, and Kieth told me so.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:53pm

      I tried watching msnbc once…just to get a feel for the crap they shovel out. I couldn’t take more than about a minute and a half of that craziness…

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    • jilajig2
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:17pm

      TROLLEYTRIANER:

      I am a Christian Brother in Christ too, and I find it hard to believe that you are not offended at this man who is looking at this garbage (don‘t care if it’s “only” Playboy! It’s still from the pit of Hell!) As Christians, we need to hold our elected officials to a much higher standard than anyone else.

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  • Susan Harkins
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:47am

    Hey John Conyers, there will be an additional fee charged to your ticket for apolstry cleaning services.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:46am

    He has no common sense or morality. Or leaders “should” be above board.

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  • jhoobs
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:46am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1kjY3RwdM

    Now we know what he was doing instead of reading the damn bill

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  • oldasdirt
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:41am

    Seems some of the pages were stuck togeather,,eeeww!

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:40am

    At Least Now We Know That He Can Read. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • crossdraw
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:46pm

      Nope. He was looking at the pictures. If he needed to read he has a 100,000 dollar a year aide to read it for him. I’m more then surprised he has enough coordination to turn the pages without assistance. He’s an IDIOT

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  • john seven eighteen
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:39am

    If he is stupid enough to read it on a plane where anyone can see him then he deserves all the bad publicity he gets. I don’t care what you do in your spare time but if you are a public figure have a little common sense.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:54am

      I’m glad I read your post before I posted as I was going to say the same thing. Have a little class man, at least go to the lav and get your ya yas. On an aisle seat were kids and ladies inadvertently getting a look at his smut as they walked past?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:14pm

      If they had any common sense the country wouldn‘t be in the shape it’s in.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:17pm

      Ah, but SOP for the leftist socilist progressives is it not?
      After all it is do as I say and not as I do, so why should we expect them to exibit any moral value, when they are frankly bankrupt of them to begin with.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:23pm

      Agreed.. I would be offended if I was sitting next to him IF he were the average Joe but being a representative is showing his LACK of class Playboy itself isn’t bad but that is BATHROOM reading in your own home

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    • sawman
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:36pm

      He probably didn’t see Forrest Gump….Stupid is a stupid does. If he wants to read it, then ok. But a public figure in a public place….come on. Quit being so stupid. Oh, I’m sorry….he’s a liberal, and that sort of activity is ok for liberals. Nothing wrong with it.

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    • Highland
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 5:33pm

      Who reads Playboy in public? I hate to think what else he’d do in public.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:39am

    our elderly half-deaf uncle used to hold the Playboy magazine and slowly turn and linger on pages just like that out in the barn.

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  • RobertCA
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:38am

    Yeah do it baby do it , a couple of crooks him & his wife .

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  • Toni Rose
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:38am

    His wife is in prison, I guess this sicko is taking thing into own hand.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:52am

      I don’t care about the magazine .. I do care, however, about what he and his fellow Democrats have done to Michigan and the Country!

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    • leftiesaredangerous
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:54am

      He doesn’t need to read Playboy anymore, he can just hang out and watch the TSA molesters at work.

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    • what4
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:03pm

      Only for the article’s right…..

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:18pm

      He only buy’s it for the articles( Of no clothing)

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    • Jim S
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:32pm

      …let me get this straight, an adult is reading a Playboy mag and The Blaze thinks that is news?…is that “BREAKING NEWS” or“ UPDATE” or “DEVELOPING STORY”…is the B team running things for the holidays?…not news guys…not near news..

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:32pm

      I guess now we know why he doesn’t have time to read legislation before he votes on it!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN9f9clmig
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoEUTqhYmA

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:00pm

      Read the Billllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

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    • CaptGregg
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:12pm

      So what’s the big deal? He’s an adult male reading something available at nearly any store that carries magazines. One has to be pretty prudish to consider Playboy to be porn. It’s not like he was holding a copy of something with a title on the order of Teen Babes In Bondage in one hand while masturbating with the other.

       
    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:26pm

      NO suprise here indeed!

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    • Camo Pants
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:04pm

      @Toni
      Lol. I see what you did there. :)

      Hey, if he wants to do that on a plane and not read something that matters to millions of Americans let him. It just means we get him kicked out and someone better in.

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:30pm

      Yes, this is breaking news for an audience hungry for any slam of a democrat, not matter how gratuitous. Let‘s get back to how we’d all nuke N. Korea. Either that or Larry Craig’s “wide stance.”

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    • Clive
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:30pm

      agree with most on the board. he’s an adult, he can do what he wants. and playboy isn’t hustler, its a naked woman for christs sake, who cares. lastly, this isn’t news.

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    • AZfreeman
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:11pm

      This IS news. It goes to his character… or rather lack of it, and his arrogance and ego to think that kind of behavior is OK for a Congressman in public.

      Isn’t this the same Congressman who said something like…”who cares if you read it (the health care bill) when it’s 2,000 pages and you need a team of lawyers to tell you what it means”. Well, it would appear he finally found his proper level of literary comprehension.
      Michigan folks, shame on you for electing this kind of man.
      …rf

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:36pm

      why cant this happen
      http://inflation.us/videos.html

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    • Deuteronomy22
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:37pm

      Nudity is not “porn”. Many classical artists painted nude women. The Blaze is becoming an online version of The National Enquirer with articles like this and the revolution fear mongering. I guess I was naive believing it would be an unbiased news site. I suppose I will simply treat it as entertainment vs real analysis of actual events.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:43pm

      Sadly, the people in his district keep voting this moron into Congress. When are people going to wake up and really drain the swamp of these types of creatures. I don’t have a problem with his reading material, just his continual criminal activity in office. His wife is in prison, unrepentant for her criminal behavior, and you can‘t tell me he isn’t neck high with the same type of actions. They both travel in the same circle with the same crooks.

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    • Senora1890
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:21pm

      Is she really in prison? I suspected she would get a pat on her tush for her theft from the working people? amazing.

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    • Bronco II
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 12:52pm

      Well,Well no I’m not surprised at all.

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