{"id":5125,"date":"2008-09-18T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2008-09-18T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:54:40","slug":"shooting-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Suissa writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Gov.<\/p>\n

Gov. Sarah Palin with filmmaker Elan Frank
\nPhoto courtesy Elan Frank<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I was visiting with a friend and Israeli war hero the other day, a guy with great stories named Elan Frank, and all we could talk about was Sarah Palin. <\/p>\n

Let me explain. Frank was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1982 after he rescued 25 Israeli soldiers caught in a nighttime terrorist ambush deep inside Lebanon. The conditions were so risky that Frank’s co-pilot suggested they abort the mission. Frank ignored the advice, and under intense enemy fire, he made a daredevil 360 degree move to speed up the helicopter’s landing and rescue the troops.<\/p>\n

That was 26 years ago. Now Frank is a busy filmmaker.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, he called the office of the governor of Alaska to ask permission to shoot Sarah Palin for his new film, a documentary about powerful women of the world. Because he had spent a lot of time in Alaska, he’d heard about the feisty Palin and thought she’d be a natural.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what? She said yes.<\/p>\n

So there he was in Alaska a few weeks later, with his camera practically glued for several days to the eight-months-pregnant governor as she went about her daily business.<\/p>\n

As fate would have it, soon thereafter Palin became the most talked-about woman on the planet, and Frank became the proprietor of film footage everyone wanted to see.<\/p>\n

While I sat in his office last week, he took several calls from the press, including one from a producer at Fox television, who’s flying him to New York this week to appear on Fox News’ "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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