Good eye. Newt wasn't whistling Dixie when he brought up Toffler and "The Third Wave". Sure, one can say "eeeuuu... Toffler.. a "liberal" and shut down. But I read the book in the early 70s -- I got the gist. So, I was really clear about what Newt was on about. I find a lot of good ideas among liberals, etc. I disagree with their politics and proposals to "solve" matters; but! I'm open to learning. And yes, the blogosphere/freep have altered the nature of "news" reporting.
I cited some of Toffler's concepts in my master's thesis.
The conservative professors had to be sold on his comments to get them to sign their approval.