Rush is 100 times worse than Olbermann. Olbermann's words match reality much more often, period. They are comparable in terms of being on their own side of the political spectrum and not trying to be "balanced" (which would be fail anyway), but that's not nearly the salient point. Plus Olbermann is like Jon Stewart, REacting to stupidity, not putting it out there sui generis like Limbaugh/Fox do constantly.
Btw the government encouraged homeownership through several programs, yes, but the rise of bundling and selling of mortgage-backed securities tracks the price bubble much more tightly, while government programs existed for decades before the price bubble, with little change from the gov't end in the runup to the crash. Demand for the securities drove housing prices up. Wall Street bundling and selling them to investors abroad caused the bubble, then the crash.
