By all accounts this looks like: 1. He is trying to dampen the PR turd-cascade he has created 2. Hoping to assuage the Board from having to make him fall on hi

By all accounts this looks like: 1. He is trying to dampen the PR turd-cascade he has created 2. Hoping to assuage the Board from having to make him fall on his sword, so that they don't have to go on a new Exec search and he doesn't join those he terminated so utterly daftly