Relevant passage from Orwell's 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language":

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases . . . one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved, as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favourable to political conformity.

Was the first thing that popped into my head when I looked at the video. Very creepy.

He's not the only one to use a teleprompter, y'know.

This is from Canada, same-same though.

This is dark shit. It's clear that these phrases are excessively tested with focus groups , until each little sentence is A-grade psychological manipulation, right down to the tone of voice. It's scary how easily people are sold.

Add another one to the pile.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8dejYGa5A (montage of news casters repeating identical phrases across different local outlets)