Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and a founding member of the network in 1980, as well as CNN's financial news division. Lou Dobbs Tonight attracts CNN's second-largest audience after Larry King Live. Dobbs' calls himself an independent populist, critic of the excesses of capitalism, which he identifies as globalization, offshore outsourcing, illegal immigration, free trade deals, big business influence in government. Dobbs has won nearly every major award for television journalism.