It's a rarely acknowledged fact that St. Louis plays an outsized role in feeding the right-wing media cauldron with its necessary diet of Trump-mania and conspiracy theories — and with all due respect to Ed Martin and his efforts to burnish the turds of Steve Bannon and James O'Keefe, there's no denying that man at the top of the turd pile is Jim Hoft.
Hoft's site, The Gateway Pundit, serves as a primary source for conservative media pillars ranging from Drudge Report to Sean Hannity, and the site has the fact-checking capabilities of an immoral goldfish.…