Reporter plays Pokemon Go during State Department ISIS briefing - CNET

Suddenly, he stopped.

"You're playing the Pokemon thing right there, aren't you?" said Kirby to an unnamed joualist, according to the CNN footage of the briefing.

The joualist reportedly confessed to his misdeed, as if it was the most normal thing on earth.

"I'm just keeping an eye on it," he said.

Oh, that's alright then.

You might imagine that Kirby would have been a touch exasperated. Here was a joualist, there to listen to details about fighting a terrorist organization, who couldn't tear himself away from the game du jour.

But Kirby is a professional. He continued with his briefing.

Until, that is, he tued to the reporter again, "Did you get one?" he asked.

The joualist, seeming still not to offer even a tinge of embarrassment, replied: "No, the signal's not very good."

Kirby looked at him with eyes barely concealing contempt and lips that would have dearly loved to tell him what he really thought,

Instead, he said: "I'm sorry about that."

Some might hope that the joualist did get more than a nasty stare from his employer when he got back to the office.

But it's not as if politicians themselves are immune from tuing to gadgets when they're on official business.

There was the Indonesian anti-po lawmaker who was caught on his iPad during a parliamentary debate. Oddly, he was watching po.

During a parliamentary debate in Italy, a politician was caught surfing an escort site. (He blamed the iPad.)