MEGAN MCARDLE on the Montana hairdresser commercial:

I have to agree; it reeks homophobic to me. . . . They couldn’t have made their message any clearer without, say, a shockwave of him prancing around in a maribou robe, singing excerpts from Judy Garland’s greatest hits while waving a sign that says “Queer as a $3 bill!”

Andrew Sullivan agrees. (And if you missed this yesterday, you can read much, much more here).

UPDATE: Adam Bonin, who is quoted in the earlier post as saying he didn’t see the gay angle, has watched the commercial again and emails:

I didn’t catch the little reach-down at the end of the ad the first time I saw it. Yeah, they’re insinuating. Please scrap what I said before.

Sorry — it’ll live forever in the Google Archive! Er, and mine. But the correction is noted. It sure looked that way to me.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Howard Kurtz thinks the ad just makes Taylor look “goofy.”