Joe Wilson’s reelection campaign has offered a first: a short video of the congressman’s wife, Roxanne Wilson, explaining her reaction that evening:

Note she says President Obama was “very gracious” in accepting Wilson’s apology.

Campaign Spot’s former Hilton Head Bureau Chief, a.k.a., “Dad,” lives in Wilson’s district in South Carolina and notes that local Republicans now want to build a statue of him. Despite the influx of funds to his expected Democratic rival, Wilson would look pretty safe even if he wasn’t collecting more than $1 million in the past week. His district has a Cook Partisan Index rating of R+9, and last year he had 54 percent when Obama was bringing out just about every last Democratic vote in the state.