Matthew Yglesias gives us another example of "I'm too lazy to actually search their websites, but I don't remember hearing about women's rights organizations talking about issue X..."
There are a lot of issues here. First, I don't remember hearing the Ladies Against Women talking about the plight of women in Sudan. But, there are at least a few search hits at their website, though they seem to be celebrating the Sudan Peace Pact which I don't know much about but doesn't look all that good.
In fact, when I look around a bunch of other right-leaning websites I don't find much concern about the events in the Sudan either. If right wingers were so concerned about the Sudan, instead of trying to score political points, they might start, you know, trying to do something about it by lobbying Congress, raising awareness, etc... That's much more productive than bashing people who are actually doing those things even though you imagine they're not.
More generally this really is about the so-called Liberal Media. When there was the big flap about Augusta National not allowing women members, a lot of people correctly argued that there are perhaps more important things to worry about. Well, there are, but those issues don't get you booked on Crossfire, or even the Newshour. The media loves to talk about issues like that, then blame the spokespeople they book on their shows for talking about them... then they'll proceed to devote 4 hours straight to the issue themselves. The media pretend they don't set the agenda, as if members of feminist organizations can come on their shows and talk about anything they want to, and that they regularly do, but of course that's crap.
Similarly, when we were in the run-up to the war, the media wouldn't book any people with actual credentials to take the "anti-war" side - they'd book actors and then spend most of the interviews asking them why they should care what the hell some stupid actor thinks. There were more credentialed people out there willing to speak out, but the liberal media didn't want to hear from them.
TV producers choose which issues they want to cover and who they invite on to discuss them. Then they pretend they're just passive actors, passing on the news of the day. It's a lie. They control what and who they show.
