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Someone at Fox News must really like The Untouchables. On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace followed in Glenn Beck‘s footsteps of last week, playing a clip from the gangster film to underscore the Obama administration’s “Chicago way of doing business” in retaliating against Fox for its unfavorable coverage. It only got harsher from there:

According to many pundits, one of the central goals of President Obama’s increasingly high-stakes war with Fox News is to galvanize his supporters on the left.

Well, you can check that box off: influential progressive PAC MoveOn.org is calling for all Democrats to stay off Fox for the rest of the year in support of Obama’s decision to do the same.

Mediaite called the showdown between Fox News and the Obama administration back in mid-August. Now that it’s officially here, heralded by an attack-dog performance by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn on Reliable Sources, what does it mean? And which side, if either, will ultimately come out on top? A roundup of pundit reactions from the blogosphere and beyond: