The "spam" was actually one (or more) trolls making fun of Chief Prevaricator Korir and the website by posting comments on threads regarding the fake tape.
Yeah, I saw the post on the subject site... Well, any blogsite that doesn't have a throttle on user input rate is beyond silly. Being brought offline for hours by a troll is a lame excuse, and most likely a fabrication, but if true, it exposes the site as run by total idiots. If that weren't already established, given the content....