Karl Rove, adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush, made an iconic comment that included the phrase, "We're an empire now." “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. Rove denied he said it, calling the comment “weird,” while Suskind, still operating under the agreement he made with the source in 2004, declined to identify who said it:“Not familiar with the band and the quote is fictitious,” Rove wrote. He won’t say either way; the conversation was meant to be not for attribution, and that agreement still stands.) Rove also told Newsweek he didn’t think much of The National’s song, suspecting it “won’t make Casey Kasem’s Top 40.” There was no love lost between the band and Rove.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2021 18:06 UTC