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  • 2021-12-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Karl Rove Say 'We're an Empire Now'? (en)
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  • In October 2004, journalist Ron Suskind wrote a first-person article for The New York Times about the presidency of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush, in which he included a grandiose quote from someone described only as a senior adviser to Bush. Many have assumed the comment was made by Bush political adviser Karl Rove, though there isn't any publicly available evidence to that effect. Here is what Suskind wrote: The quote starting with We're an empire now became rather famous among political observers and elites, and has been viewed as something of a historical bellwether for the current state of American politics sometimes described as post truth. Examples of consequences for operating on post truth in politics include the Iraq War and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Many assume the comment was made by Rove. For example, in 2017, journalist Kurt Andersen wrote in The Atlantic about the importance of the quote: The quote garnered renewed attention in 2017 when the Ohio-based rock band The National included it in the song Walk It Back. In 2017, after the release of the song, Newsweek Magazine contacted both Suskind and Rove about the song and the quote. 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: 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. For the record, here's the song in question: (en)
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