Welcome to the Best of Left Podcasts with clips today from the Daily Show, Rachel

Maddo on the media, La Show, and real-time with Bill Marr.

Let's begin the night with a big story of the weekend.

Around Decision 09.

Today in Iran, hundreds of thousands of protesters angrily took to the streets to express their disappointment at,

I'm sorry, actually, that's the celebration in the United States concerning the basketball team, whose supporters were pleased.

There's the Iranians expressing their desire for a more democratic future.

Oh, street carnage. Is there any occasion you're not appropriate for?

I wonder what the mob will do for Father's Day.

The Iranians were actually showing their frustration that on Friday, incumbent President Mahmoud Akhidakh, defeated challenger and reform candidate Mir Hossein Mosavi,

62 percent to 33 percent, a landslide victory, surprising since the 85 percent turnout typically favors the reform candidates.

In election results were strangely announced before the polls closed.

And Akhidakh, in a jujah, won handily even in his opponent's hometown, and also, he's back in insane.

Case in point, as government forces sought to disperse protesters using tear gas, baton wielding motorcyclists,

and bullets, Ahmadinejad issued this statement.

The situation in the country is in a very good condition.

Iran is the most stable country in the world.

The translator's not even buying it.

Iran is the most stable country in the world.

Nothing to worry about here.

As for the White House's response to the election, well, it's tricky.

We weren't sure if there should be a dot, dot, dot.

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