Supposin' Ole Pecoz told you Pilgrims that Bob Woodwards new book....

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" will be published Sept. 8 by Simon & Schuster with an announced first printing of 900,000 copies. Would you be surprised?

Suppose I mentioned this book is supposed to be a President George Bush expose' to the extent: "There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers," Woodward's longtime editor, Alice Mayhew, said Tuesday in a statement. "This is the declassification of what went on in secret, behind the scenes."

According to Simon & Schuster, Woodward's book "takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq.

"Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemporaneous notes and secret documents, the book traces the internal debates, tensions and critical turning points in the Iraq War during an extraordinary two-year period."

Now suppose that I told you that the book will be rolled out with an exclusive, lengthy interview (Infomercial?) on '60 Minutes on CBS on the night of September 7th

So now we have Simon & Schuster, Publishers with the big roll-out on September 8th, the big promo commercial on 60 Minutes on the 7th, ....

Last question Pilgrims -- you need this to pass the smell test: Suppose I told you that both Simon & Schuster and CBS News were owned by the same company --- Viacom, Inc.

Would any of this surprise you?

Gee, if CBS and 60 Minutes are news organizations, I wonder why 60 Minutes didn't interview Jerome Corsi, when he introduced his unaided Number 1 best seller, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality"? Nah, I'm just kiddin', I know why! And so do you!