On NPR they regularly have EJ Dionne and David Brooks get together to discuss issues of the day. They basically agree on almost everything. The only real difference is in how they are introduced — Brooks is the “conservative” and EJ Dionne isn’t.
David Gergen perfected that years ago. And then of course there was Dan Rather’s favorite conservative, Kevin Phillips , who had one of the worst cases of Bush Derangement Syndrome known to man.