Senator John McCain was honored with the Liberty Medal earlier tonight, and he delivered a speech that seemed like it was directed at certain individuals in particular, even though he didn’t name names…

McCain railed against “half-baked, spurious nationalism,” and got a lot of applause for that line.

“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain “the last best hope of earth” for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”