Hi is brainwashed and paid for. He would lose his career, identity, friends, and reputation if he said anything truthful. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
He believes everything he says, beneath it all.
People are more truthful about their attitudes than we give them credit for. They can lie, and lie to themselves, about facts or objective analyses, but rarely about their feelings.
Someone who hates or despises you, and says so, really does.