Media differentiate Beck's "opinions" from Wallace's "news," but record shows Wallace repeatedly echoes Beck
Wallace echoes Beck in airing Untouchables clip, referring to the Obama administration's "Chicago way." On the October 23 edition of his Fox News program, Beck aired clips from the movie The Untouchables and compared President Obama to Al Capone. Brandishing a baseball bat, Beck suggested that Obama would "whack" the American people and declared that "[a]nyone not on board, look out, because you too could be the next victim of the killing spree." Beck also aired a clip of actor Sean Connery stating: "He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone." Beck then stated: "That's the Chicago way. Now, we have it in Washington. That's the Washington way." Two days later, on the October 25 edition of Fox News Sunday, Wallace also aired the clip of Connery from The Untouchables and referred to "what some people are calling the administration's Chicago way of doing business."Other examples at the link. Despite defenders that range from Newsweek, Howie Kurtz and NPR that claim there is a difference between Fox "news" and "opinion", day after day Fox blurs news and opinion.
