I haven’t seen the new ABC series “Commander in Chief,” but I gather the set-up is this: To score points with somebody, I don’t know who, a Republican president appoints an “independent” academic who served a single term in Congress as his vice president when the Veep dies. You know, because there was nobody else in the whole country who might have been better for the job. Then the president has a stroke or a heart attack or something. So she becomes president, even though everybody wants her to resign. And she gives a really great speech, so the country loves her. This may be the single most implausible scenario on television since a little tourist boat on a three-hour tour from Honolulu vanished and ended up on a desert island from which it was impossible to escape or be rescued. Oh, and in another hilarious effort at figuring out new media, ABC has actually put up a fake group blog on its website to promote “Commander in Chief,” complete with sample right-wing sentences like “Since when does being a mother qualify you to be leader of the free world?” I’m not providing a link because it’s just too unbelievably stupid to merit one. Find it yourself at abc.com if you insist.

Oh, and Warren? Don’t defend the show just because it comes on after yours. Jim wouldn’t watch it. You know he wouldn’t.