'The SWAT-ting must stop': Sarah Palin defends the freedom to blog at RightOnline

Jenn Taylor | 9:19 AM on June 16, 2012

Sarah Palin thrilled the conservative crowd at the RightOnline conference in Las Vegas last night by joining the chorus of voices defending the freedom to blog. In her keynote address, the former Alaska governor called for an end to the vicious harassment and SWAT-ting of conservative bloggers.

Sarah Palin onstage at RightOnline! #ro12 pic.twitter.com/cWCdPEL9

— RightOnline (@rightonline) June 16, 2012

So true– @sarahpalinusa quoting Kelly Clarkson–What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Palin notes bloggers targeted by #BrettKimberlin

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 16, 2012

https://twitter.com/timpysan/status/213828493870501888

Palin on SWATting and #BrettKimberlin "The SWATting must stop and those responsible for the SWATting must be held respo by the law'

— Joe Brooks (@joebrooks) June 16, 2012

https://twitter.com/ali/statuses/213828590184312832

wow. she knows stuff the media doesn't. wonder what papers *they* read RT @ali: Palin brings up #BrettKimberlin … Boom. #ro12

— Prudence Paine (@PruPaine) June 16, 2012

After mocking the progressive campaign to silence Rush Limbaugh, Palin told the audience:

These are futile efforts, though, to get constitutional conservatives to sit down and shut up. And I know that some of you bloggers, oh, especially recently, are experiencing terrible harassment just because you dared report accurately about a convicted criminal who’s now funded by left-wing organizations. And you’re not alone, and the SWAT-ting must stop, and those responsible for the SWAT-ting must be held accountable by the law.