From Rush & Molloy, NY Daily News (give me strength!):
The Rev. Al Sharpton gave Mexican President Vicente Fox a crash course in Brooklyn street-speak when they met Monday.
The Rev, you'll recall, left Mexico's presidential mansion in a huff after Fox would only say he "regretted" saying Mexicans in the U.S. "take work that not even blacks want to do."
Sources say that during their meeting, Fox confided that for political reasons, he couldn't formally apologize.
Sharpton wouldn't discuss Fox's remarks, but confirmed to us that he told the president, "Don't p- on my leg and tell me it's raining."
"He was taken aback," the preacher recalled. " But I said to him, 'I'm from Brooklyn. We talk plainly.'"
Sharpton said Fox happily accepted his gift of a DVD of "Crash," the critically acclaimed race-relations drama. Meanwhile, Sharpton was among the 20 or so black leaders Sen. John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry invited to dinner at their D.C. home Wednesday.
Kerry also invited them to critique his failed presidential campaign. Several told him they'd wished he had waited longer before conceding Ohio and that he didn't reach out early enough to minority voters.
"He took the criticism very well," said Sharpton. "He gave no indication about whether he was going to run for President again."
Asked if he'd support the senator, Sharpton said, "I haven't decided whether I'm going to run again."