It is impossible to imagine just how sick Jones is. He further reinforced just what a misfit he is by clearly suggesting that he thought it was a case of "manning up" to make the apology.
He is so self absorbed and weird that he was actually trying to pat himself on the back for making an apology.
I noticed on the tape that his unbelievably ridiculous comment was met with laughter by many of the similarly weird listeners at the function.