Wilson’s Wife, Post-Heckle: ‘Joe, Who’s The Nut Who Hollered Out?’

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In a new web ad from Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) re-election campaign, his wife defends his passion and work ethic, but confessed calling the heckler a “nut.”

“I said, ‘Joe, who’s the nut that hollered out, “You lie?”‘ Roxanne Wilson says in the ad. “And he goes, ‘It was me’ …. I couldn’t believe that Joe would say that. But he is very passionate.”

She attributed the outburst to the anger her husband had seen “in the trenches” at health care town halls. She said she appreciated President’s Obama graciousness in accepting Joe Wilson’s apology.

She also recounted when she met her husband, at “teenage Republican camp” in 1966.

Video after the jump.

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