Fox News once banned its hosts from speaking at partisan events. Then it went all in on CPAC.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth gave a rousing speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, telling the crowd of ardent Trump supporters that liberals are out of touch.
His colleague Dan Bongino, a Fox contributor, urged people to “get back in the fight” to elect Republicans in an appearance at the same conference.
The sentiments expressed weren’t especially unusual for CPAC, a kind of Burning Man festival for the conservative faithful. What was unusual — and disturbing to some experts in journalistic ethics — was the...