When a Fox News host bizarrely mentioned historic East Bay bar the Hotsy Totsy Club on air, calling it a “strip joint,” the bar penned a satirical all-caps tirade setting the record straight \u2014 and while the host got El Cerrito\u2019s zip code right, the bar is located in Albany. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n
As SFGate reports<\/a>, Jessica Maria, who owns the 87-year-old Hotsy Totsy Club in Albany, was taken aback when a customer sent her a clip of Fox News host Emily Compagno, who grew up in El Cerrito, dragging the establishment \u201cthrough the mud\u201d during a segment on the conservative talk show \u201cThe Five\u201d Wednesday. In a tongue-in-cheek, all-caps clapback, Maria addressed Compagno\u2019s \u201cMAGA LIES\u201d about the bar on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cFOX NEWS DRAGS HOTSY TOTSY CLUB THROUGH THE MUD WITH MAGA LIES!\u201d reads the bar\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n In the segment, Compagno and the other hosts are in the middle of discussing President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to a pharmaceutical company in Ohio when Compagno suddenly changes course, asking host Jesse Watters if he\u2019d prefer to discuss the Hotsy Totsy Club, per SFGate. <\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s like the strip joint where I come from,\u201d Compagno says, later adding \u2014 incorrectly \u2014 that it\u2019s in El Cerrito.<\/p>\n When host Dana Perino asks what that has to do with big pharma, host Greg Gutfeld jabs, \u201cA lot of girls on drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n As SFGate notes, the bar has never been a strip joint. Prior to Maria and co-owner Michael Valladares taking it over in 2009, the club was a dive bar, albeit with a reputation for serving people who were underage.<\/p>\n On social media, Maria satirically set the record straight, adding MAGA-style text overlays to the original video clip: <\/p>\n Fox News Lies! Maria told SFGate she thought it was apropos that Fox News would get the facts wrong \u2014 even about a little, old bar. <\/p>\n \u201cI just found the funny in it, of how you can take an 87-year-old Albany landmark and reduce it down to a drug-infested strip joint in El Cerrito,\u201d Maria told Fox News. \u201cAll the information is wrong.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so on the nose that they took tons of misinformation and just created their own story that had nothing to do with what we really are,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n Image: The Hotsy Totsy Club\/Facebook<\/p>\n
Lie #1: Not a strip joint you ass hat!
Lie #2: No drugs. Tipsy perhaps
Lie #3: It\u2019s in Albany, 94706
Lie #3: There\u2019s no El Camino in El Cerrito! (in response to Gutfeld proclaiming, incorrectly, \u201cI used to drive down El Camino in El Cerrito\u201d)
Keep our name out of your f\u2014ing mouth<\/p>\n