Some terrible person and wiseguy using the name "Mort Kanine" wrote a letter to the Daily Evergreen, the student newspaper for Washington State University. It was during the high tide of Reaganism, and WSU was a conservative campus, although it was also noted for being the "Party School" of Washington.
The letter to the editor, published February 16, 1984, claimed that old Ron the Con was the Antichrist. Notice Mr. Kanine did not claim to be a Christian, although at least one responder assumed he was.
Making an allegation at a university where Ronald Reagan was so enormously popular had the predictable effect, as demonstrated by the samples of the subsequent responses which lasted for about two weeks.
What a dreadful man Mort Kanine must have been.
