In response to the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, controversial filmmaker and writer Michael Moore has tried – and failed – to withdraw copies of his book from the state.
He wrote on his blog that he “will ask my publisher to pull my book from every Georgia bookstore and if they won’t do that I will donate every dime of every royalty my book makes in Georgia to help defeat the racists and killers who run that state.”
However, he told Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann that his publisher Grand Central Publishing, part of the Hachette Book Group, “just told me that they can’t.