Unfortunately, the column writer got his pill colors mixed up. To quote Morpheus from the movie, “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes”
In other words, with the blue pill you stay in the fantasy of the Matrix and the red pill shows you reality.
Which is why Cipher says to Neo later on in the movie, "You know, I know what you're thinking, because right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill?!"
True and it coincidentally matches up exactly right with red state reality oriented and blue state coma induced mentality.