Ari Fleischer, now a media consultant working for the team, thinks so. “Remember when (Vice President Dick) Cheney was really unpopular in 2004? Bush was asked if he was going to dump him from the ticket. A head coach starts out 0-4; the questions become about firing the coach or benching the quarterback. It’s a similar mentality. When something goes wrong, the press zeroes right in on it.” So, why is Fleischer a Dolphins fan? “It’s embarrassing, but I loved Flipper when I was a little kid,” Fleischer said. “When there was a football team named the Dolphins, that was it.”
