No, he's a person. Slinging mud is only going to make him sling mud, and in turn get you guys to sling mud again.
He's still defending them (or attacking tony). Either of which means that he's speaking for the bronies, unconditionally or not.
1 may be true, but 2 can be justified.
There are far more reasons why people don't like Tony, it just happens that he pissed a lot of people off at once for the same reason.