Persuasive

With the amount of backpedaling and dwelling on the same points that he does, you can definitely tell Teddy's trying to sell the audience on ideas that they might not find intuitive. There's plenty of (we paraphrase) "Don't get me wrong"s and "It's easy to misunderstand what I've said"s.

He puts the same idea through twenty different kinds of lenses throughout the speech, iterating upon the same ideas until he finds an anecdote or an example that might gel with the audience. This sentence is a dead give-away:

Now, it is easy to twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to affect to misunderstand it, and if it is slurred over in repetition not difficult really to misunderstand it. (21)

He knows that his speech might be implying things that he's not necessarily down with, and he has to work extra hard to grapple with the audience and make sure that he's understood.