“The first time the Confederate flag was ‘used in a racist way’ was the exact second they finished sewing the very first one,” John Oliver notes. Take a look at what Oliver, his former colleague Jon Stewart and a couple of other “Daily Show” comedians think of the fact that the Confederate flag is still raised at the South Carolina State House — even after the recent racist attack on a Charleston church.

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