“Media Assassin” Harry Allen—journalist, talk show host and Public Enemy collaborator back in the day—has tracked down a promotional video of Margaret “B. Jones” Seltzer before she was unmasked as a liar for her “memoir” Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival:

It seems to have been shot as part of a companion “electronic press kit,” or EPK, for the disgraced author’s quickly-canceled book tour and publicity campaign. (In the wake of the outrageous controversy, Riverhead recalled all of the 19,000 copies of Love and Consequences it had previously shipped, from a 24,000 total copies printed, the sum of which were then certainly pulped.)

In it, she talks about all of the same bullshit she talked about in her book, her gangbanging and drug running and what-not. Of course, now that her sister has exposed her as a fraud, viewing the video takes on a whole new level of absurdity—not merely comedy, but also a chilling reminder of the ease with which some people can look into a camera (or type on a screen) and lie their ass off.

Not content to merely let the video speak for itself (which it does quite adequately), Allen breaks it down to a fascinating degree.

Check out the video below and Allen’s excellent piece here.

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