Keller @ Large: Celebrity Endorsements Mean Nothing

BOSTON (CBS) - Since we seem to be in the middle of a presidential campaign where celebrity trumps all else, no pun intended, let's set the candidates' qualifications and the urgent issues of our time aside and focus on what really matters - celebrity endorsements.

Hillary Clinton's roster runs the gamut from Ben Affleck to Robert De Niro, from Lena Dunham to Helen Mirren, from Howard Stern to Sharon Stone. She gets the nod from one of the greatest basketball players in history, Magic Johnson. On the downside, she is also endorsed by A-Rod.

But Bernie Sanders is no slouch.

Watertown's own Eliza Dushku is feeling the bern, as is George Wendt - you remember, "Norm" from "Cheers." And if Kareem Abdul-Jabbar isn't enough to neutralize Magic, Sanders can always send in endorser Ronda Rousey of UFC fame to mop up.

Curiously, perhaps our greatest living comedian, Will Ferrell, was originally a Sanders endorser, but now appears to be backing Clinton. Let's face it, an anchorman has to appeal to a mass audience at all times.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump definitely has the most motley crew of endorsers, including the likes of Latrell Sprewell, the former NBA star who once tried to strangle his coach, John Rocker, the former baseball star famous for his ethnic slurs, and Mike Tyson, about whom nothing need be said. Same goes for another Trumpster, Ted Nugent.

We could go on, but why bother?

None of these celebrities has an iota more insight into who should lead our country than you do, probably less. Which is why celebrity endorsements are amusing, but also the ultimate in empty calories.