Obviously a new canard, compare the Tea Party to the discredited JBS, who the communist media destroyed in the early sixties.
There are similarities between the Tea Party and the JBS but they are not identical and, in many cases, they have irreconcilable viewpoints.
Significantly, the JBS scores all members of Congress in its “Freedom Index” (previously known as “Conservative Index”). There are Tea Party conservatives about whom the JBS gives very poor scores.
In addition, the current CEO of the JBS (Art Thompson) has previously written articles which excoriated Tea Party favorites such as Sarah Plain and Cong. Paul Ryan.