He’s With Him: In a recorded message, President Trump has thrown his full weight behind Roy Moore, the accused pedophile running for the US Senate from Alabama.

In the robocall recorded for Moore, Trump says, “Roy Moore is the guy we need to pass our ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda.” In the recording, Trump slams Moore’s opponent Doug Jones as everything from weak on crime to not supporting veterans and wanting higher taxes. Everything but that he’s an accused child molester. Oh wait, that’s Trump’s guy.

The Democrats have been waging a massive get out the vote campaign to tilt the election to Jones. A win for the Democrats would reduce the Republican Senate majority to just 51.

Moore has been dodging the press in recent days as the race approaches tomorrow’s vote. He has denied knowing any of the women accusing him of pursuing them when they were teenagers and he was an adult. Standing behind his devout religiosity, Moore told a television reporter in a rare interview, “I’ve stood up for moral values, so they’re attacking me in that way.”

He also said, “It’s inconceivable to think that someone would wait 40 years because they were embarrassed or ashamed or something, and then less than 30 days before the general election, come out and make allegations — and then appear on a political advertisement, when they’ve waited 40 years not to be embarrassed,” Moore said.

But Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama’s other ultra-conservative sitting senator, told CNN’s Jake Tapper he couldn’t vote for Moore. “So many accusations … when it got to the 14-year-old’s story, that was enough for me,” he said. “I said, ‘I can’t vote for Roy Moore.’”

Free Speech: President Trump called for the firing of a Washington Post reporter who mistakenly tweeted a picture of a near-empty arena during the president’s speech in Pensacola Friday night. The tweet wrongly suggested low attendance.

Reporter David Weigel took the post down and apologized.

Recent mistakes have pumped up the president’s pogrom against the press. He tweeted yesterday, “Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media. They are out of control – correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed…a stain on America!”

Conservative commentator David Frum said on CNN, “the mistakes are precisely the reason the people should trust the media.” He said, “Faced with wrongdoing circled by lies, the process of piercing the lies to uncover the truth about the wrongdoing is inherently not only difficult but adversarial, because the people are trying to find the truth are offered against bad faith actors engaged in concealment. So, they get partial pieces of the truth. In the process, there are going to be overshoots and undershoots.”

Be Heard: Not quite breaking with her boss, but coming close, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said the women who’ve accused President Trump of sexual misconduct have a right to be heard. “They should be heard, and they should be dealt with,” Haley said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I think we heard from them prior to the election. And I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.”

She didn’t go so far as to say the women should actually be believed. President Trump has denied everything.

Wildfire: A fire that now threatens the hillside homes of Santa Barbara, Calif. has grown to more than 230,000 acres with no immediate hope for getting it under control. It’s now the fifth biggest in California history.

The fire grew by 50,000 acres just yesterday and containment dropped from 15 percent to 10. About 750 homes and buildings have been destroyed. Friends tell us they have their cars packed and ready to go as the fire creeps downhill toward the city.

Fire has also destroyed 524 structures in the city of Ventura, and there’s particular concern for Carpenteria, where fire above the city is creeping through an area that has not burned in 100 years.

California’s fire season has extended well beyond summer in the last 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown described it as “the new normal.” He said, “We’re about to have a firefighting Christmas.”

Lead Us Not: Pope Francis said in a television interview that the line from the Lord’s Prayer saying, “lead us not into temptation” is a poor translation of ancient texts because God would not lead people into temptation, Satan does. He suggested that a better line might be “Do not let us fall into temptation.”

Okay. What’s on your Christmas list?

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