Hate the Haterz

Seeing as I wrote about his other statement, I thought I'd have a look at his new statement, which you can read here.
This bit is pretty revealing:

I am sorry. And I mean it. No one is forcing me to write this. I am not feeling pressured to say this. I am speaking out because I realize that the last few days have been more hurtful to me - and many others - than the repeated blows I suffered to my head in Toronto this past weekend.

He seems to be saying that words can be more harmful than violence. Isn't he? Which seems odd coming from a man who has been whining on about the right to say whatever he goddamn feels like, and a man who makes a living saying hateful things about people.
I'm a little confused as to what the point of the apology is. I see people suggesting it's damage control to protect the Perez Hilton brand, but surely the Perez brand is being a spiteful little shit, or am I missing something here? His whole behaviour before, during and after the "incident" seems completely in character, if he's apologising for his actions then, he should just apologise for his whole career.
Instead we get silly self-justification:

Hindsight is always 20/20, they say. I should have been the bigger man and walked away from an unfortunate situation. Instead, I chose - in a very misguided way - to stand up for myself and only made things worse by how I - under pressure, anger and extreme emotion - handled the situation.

The funniest bit of this statement (why didn't he release this statement as a video?) is this:

Victims should not be mocked.

Why doesn't he just come out and say, "DON'T MOCK ME!"
Idiot (and I ain't jumping on the hating Perez bandwagon, I been hatin' long-time, his campaign against Avril Lavigne started it off, but there's so much more there as well - hate the haterz).