The Foremen - Ain't No Liberal (Video)

What this video is

Released in 1996 on Reprise Records, 'Ain't No Liberal' emerged at the apex of the Gingrich Revolution and the run-up to the 1996 US Presidential election, a period of sharp partisan polarization. The Foremen — a Los Angeles satirical folk trio founded by Roy Zimmerman — used retro Kingston Trio aesthetics and sharp political comedy to lampoon the cultural right, even as the song ironically became adopted as an…

Why it matters

Represents a rare mid-1990s major-label investment in satirical folk-comedy, a genre with roots in Tom Lehrer and Phil Ochs but largely absent from mainstream music marketing of the era. 'Ain't No Liberal' became the Foremen's signature track and a period artifact of 1990s culture-war media,…

The director

Reva Rosenfeld is credited as the director of The Foremen's 'Ain't No Liberal' music video (1996), as listed in the Internet Music Video Database (IMVDb). No additional public filmography or career biography for this individual was found in available sources…