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Supposed to be the big political fight of the summer, the battle royale of 2010. instead it is inevitable confirmation and jeff session's substance free whining and frank gaffney raving from the sidelines about the dreaded muslims. what happened here? joining us now is the seen yoer editor and correspondent for slate magazine. it's great to see you again. thank you for not finding a stunt turban for this segment. >> i didn't even know they make stunt turbans. >> they do only in photoshop at the "washington times." what did happen here? i mean, did other politics crowd out the big expected figh...

Of both. i think, you know, for one thing someone quipped to me early in the summer unless elena kagan started gushing thousands of barrels of oil from her head a day she was never going to be an a-1 story this summer. there was just too much else going on that was really riveting. and i think your second point is really more, almost to the point, which is we've constructed a confirmation system that rewards people who are utterly uninteresting and so she really i think did a very, very good job of creating an entire career for herself that made absolutely certain there was going to be no scan...