Dhoni is frankly speaking

Frankly speaking, if you had watched Dhoni's interview on NDTV "Dhoni on the beach", you would not even have an iota of doubt that Dhoni was lying because every sentence he spoke was prefixed by "frankly speaking", thus emphasizing that he is speaking the truth and nothing but the truth. Frankly speaking, the mass following that Dhoni has nowadays, people don't need this prefix to believe in whatever he says.
You know, maybe Dhoni is really not intending to add this element of truth, but actually he is just one of the millions of us, who cannot speak without such a phrase at the start of every sentence. Basically, these are the people who use words like actually, basically or phrases like "you know", "frankly speaking" as punctuation.
You know, i used to do like this back in college where i started any communication with the word "basically". There actually exists a term for such phrases. Just that i can't recollect the term. Frankly speaking, i have short term memory losses nowadays, you know!