Colmes read it before he didn't read it

Hoystory has a clip of Hannity & Colmes which catches Colmes in a lie: Last Friday, National Review Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru went on “Hannity & Colmes” to promote his book “Party of Death.” As expected, Ponnuru and Alan Colmes got into it. What is interesting, though, is that Colmes is caught in a lie about whether or not he actually read Ponnuru’s book.

He first says he read the book, then he read the best parts of the book. How would he know what the best parts were if he did not read the book? Did someone read it for him, and then mark the pages he was to read?