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Byline: Gail Shister
After taking on Frank Rizzo, how tough can the Sudanese president be?
NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who tousled with the Philadelphia mayor as a young journalist in the mid-'70s, is still "mad as hell" at being roughed up by Omar el-Bashir's security detail during a photo op at his residence on July 22.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12," says Mitchell, in Philadelphia on Thursday to flog her just-published memoir, "Talking Back ... to Presidents, Dictators and Assorted Scoundrels" (Viking Penguin).
As Bashir posed with visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Mitchell, NBC's chief foreign-affairs correspondent, had the …